Analysis of Sweet love, if thou wilt gain
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
Sweet love, if thou wilt gain a monarch’s glory,
Subdue her heart, who makes me glad and sorry,
Out of thy golden quiver,
Take thou the strongest arrow,
That will, thro’ bone and marrow,
And me and thee of grief and fear deliver;
But come behind, for if she look upon thee,
Alas! poor love, then thou art woebegone thee.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110110 01011111010 1111010 1101010 1111010 01011101010 11011111011 0111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 325 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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