Analysis of There, where I saw her lovely beauty painted

John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)



There, where I saw her lovely beauty painted,
Where, Venus-like, my sacred goddess shineth,
There, with *precellent object mine eyes fainted,
That fair, but fatal star, my dole divineth.
As soon as morning in her light appeareth,
Her sweet salute, my mind o’erclouded, cleareth;
When night again the day’s delight bereaveth,
My heart’s true sacrifice she quick receiveth:
But night and day she craftily forsakes me,
To tedious day, to loathsome night betakes me.


Scheme ABCBBBBBDD
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101010 1101110101 111101110 111101111 111100011 01011111 110101011 11110111 11011111 11001110111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 467
Words 76
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 365
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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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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