Analysis of I sung sometimes
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
I sung sometimes my thoughts’ and fancy's pleasure,
Where then I list, or time serv’d best and leisure,
While Daphne did invite me
To supper once, and drank to me to spite me.
I smil’d, yet still did doubt her,
And drank where she had drank before, to flout her.
But oh while I did eye her,
My eyes drank love, my lips drank burning fire.
| Scheme | AABBAAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110110 11111111010 1101011 11010111111 1111110 01111101110 1111110 11111111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 345 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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