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.
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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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