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.


Scheme AABBCDEECD
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
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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John Wilbye

John Wilbye (baptized 7 March 1574 – September 1638) was an English madrigal composer. more…

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