Analysis of There is a jewel
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
There is a jewel, which no Indian mines
Can buy, no chymic art can counterfeit,
It makes men rich in greatest poverty,
Makes water wine; turns wooden cups to gold;
The homely whistle, to sweet music’s strain.
Seldom it comes, to few from Heaven sent,
That much in little, all in nought content.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111001 11111110 1111010100 1101110111 0101011101 1011111101 1101010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 298 |
Words | 55 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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