Analysis of My throat is sore

John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)



My throat is sore, my voice is hoarse with skriking,
My rests are sighs, deep from the heart’s root fetched;
My song runs all on sharps, and with oft striking
Time on my breast, I shrink with hands outstretched;
Thus still, and still I sing, and ne’er am linning,
For still the close points to my first beginning.


Scheme ABABAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 1111110111 11111101110 1111111101 1101110111 11011111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 321
Words 60
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 243
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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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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