Analysis of Weep, O mine eyes
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
Weep, O mine eyes and cease not,
Out alas, these your spring tides methinks increase not.
O when begin you
to swell so high that I may drown me in you?
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111011 10111111011 11011 11111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 156 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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