Analysis of Adieu sweet amaryllis

John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)



Adieu, adieu
sweet amaryllis.
For since to part your will is.
O heavy tiding
Here is for me no biding.
Yet once again
Ere that I part with you.
Amaryllis, amaryllis,
sweet Adieu.


Scheme ABCDDEABA
Poetic Form Nonet (33%)
Metre 0101 1010 1111111 11010 1111110 1101 111111 010010 101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 179
Words 35
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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John Wilbye

John Wilbye (baptized 7 March 1574 – September 1638) was an English madrigal composer. more…

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