Analysis of So light is love
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
So light is love, in matchless beauty shining,
When she revisits Cypris' hallow'd bowers,
Two feeble doves, harness'd in silken twining,
Can draw her chariot 'midst the Paphian flowers.
Lightness to love, how ill it fitteth,
So heavy on my heart, O! on my heart he sitteth.
Scheme | ABABCC |
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Poetic Form | Sestain Heroic Sestet |
Metre | 1111011010 11010101010 11011001010 11010010110 10111111 110111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 276 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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