Analysis of What needeth all this travail?
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
What needeth all this travail and turmoiling
Shortening the life's pleasure
To seek this far-fetched treasure
In those hot climates under Phoebus broiling?
| Scheme | ABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Enclosed rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 11110101 1000110 1111110 01110101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 160 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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