Analysis of Fly, Love, aloft

John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)



Fly, Love, aloft to heav'n and look out Fortune,
Then sweetly, sweetly, sweetly her importune,
That I from my Calisto best beloved
As you and she set down be never moved.
And, Love, to Carimel see you commend me,
Fortune for his sweet sake may chance befriend me.


Scheme AABCDD
Poetic Form
Metre 11011101110 110101001 11111101 1101111101 011111011 10111111011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 266
Words 50
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 204
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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