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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