Analysis of I love, alas! yet am not loved
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
I love, alas! yet am not loved,
For cruel she to pity is not moved.
My constant love with scorn she ill rewardeth,
Only my sighs a little she regardeth:
Yet more and more the quenchless fire increaseth,
Which, to my greater torment, never ceaseth.
| Scheme | ABCCCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011111 1101110111 110111111 101101011 110101101 111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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