Sonnet 95: Yet Sighs, Dear Sighs by Sir Philip Sidney: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 95: Yet Sighs, Dear Sighs that begins with:

Yet Sighs, dear Sighs, indeed true friends you are,
That do not leave your least friend at the worst, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba abXX cccXcbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111011111 1111111101 1110111111 1101110111 1101110101 1011101111 0101101110 1101110111 1101011111 1011011011 1101100101 1011111101 1111110101 11001111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thank is repeated.

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