Analysis of Flora gave me fairest flowers
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
Flora gave me fairest flowers,
None so fair in Flora's treasure:
These I plac'd on Phillis' bowers,
She was pleas'd, and she my pleasure
Smiling meadows seem to say,
Come ye wantons, here to play.
| Scheme | ABABCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain Heroic Sestet |
| Metre | 10111010 1110110 11111010 11101110 101111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 200 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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