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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John Wilbye

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

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