Analysis of Hard destinies are love and beauty parted
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
Hard destinies are love and beauty parted,
Fair Daphne so disdainful!
Cupid, thy shafts are too unjustly darted;
Fond love, thy wounds are painful:
But sith my lovely jewel
Is prov’d so coy and cruel,
I’ll live and frolic in her beauty’s treasure,
But languish, faint, and die in her displeasure
Scheme | ABABBBCC |
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Poetic Form | ~Ottava Rima |
Metre | 11001101010 1101010 10111101010 1111110 1111010 1111010 1101000110 11010100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 302 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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