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
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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John Wilbye

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

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