Analysis of On a Fair Morning as I Came by the Way
Thomas Morley 1557 (Norwich) – 1602 (London)
On a fair morning, as I came by the way,
Met I with a merry maid in the merry month of May,
When a sweet love sings his lovely lay,
And every bird upon the bush bechirps it up so gay.
With a heave and ho! with a heave and ho!
Thy wife shall be thy master, I trow.
Sing care away, care away, let the world go!
Hey, lustily, all in a row, all in a row,
Sing care away, care away, let the world go!
| Scheme | aaaabbBbB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110111101 11101010010111 101111101 01001010111111 1010110101 111111011 11011011011 1110011001 11011011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 395 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 290 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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