Analysis of Love Not Me for Comely Grace
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face;
Nor for any outward part,
No, nor for my constant heart:
For those may fail or turn to ill,
So thou and I shall sever.
Keep therefore a true woman's eye,
And love me still, but know not why;
So hast thou the same reason still
To doat upon me ever.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 1110111 1110101 1111101 11111111 1101110 1101101 01111111 11101101 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 305 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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