Analysis of Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
Lady, when I behold the roses sprouting,
Which clad in damask mantles deck the arbours,
And then behold your lips, where sweet Love harbours,
My eyes present me with a double doubting.
For, viewing both alike, hardly my mind supposes
Whether the roses be your lips or your lips the roses.
| Scheme | ABBABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110101010 1101010101 0101111111 11101101010 1101011011010 10010111111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 296 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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