Analysis of I fall, I fall
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
I fall, I fall, O stay me,
Dear love, with joys you slay me,
Of life your lips deprive me,
Sweet, let your lips revive me,
O whither are you hasting,
And leave my life thus wasting?
My health on you relying,
‘Twere sin to leave me dying.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 1111111 1111011 1111011 1101110 0111110 1111010 1111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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