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.


Scheme AABCCBAA
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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John Wilbye

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

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