Analysis of When Cloris heard
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
When Cloris heard of her Amyntas dying,
She grieved then for her unkind denying:
Oft sighing sore, and with a heart unfeigned,
I die, I die, I die, she thus complained.
Whom, when Amyntas spied,
Then both for joy outcried,
I love, I love sweet Cloris’ eye,
And I Amyntas till I die.
| Scheme | AABBBBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110110 1111001010 110101011 1111111101 1111 11111 1111111 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 285 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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