Sonnet 7: When Nature by Sir Philip Sidney: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 7: When Nature that begins with:

When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes,
In color black why wrapp'd she beams so bright? ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab abab cXc Xdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 1101011101 0101111111 1101011101 1101010111 1011110101 0101011111 1011111001 1111110101 11100100101 1011110100 11001111101 1111110110 1101110101 0101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she is repeated.

    The author used the same word or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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