Analysis of Despiteful thus unto myself, I languish
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
Despiteful thus unto myself, I languish,
And in disdain, myself from joy I banish,
These secret thoughts enwrap me so in anguish,
That life, I hope. will soon from body vanish;
And to some rest will quickly be conveyed,
That on no joy, while so I liv’d, hath stayed.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101110 0001111110 1101111010 11111111010 0111110101 1111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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