Analysis of Down in a valley as Alexis trips
John Wilbye 1574 (Diss) – 1638 (Colchester)
Down in a valley as Alexis trips,
Daphne sat sweetly sleeping.
Soon as the wanton touch’d her ruddy lips,
She nicely falls aweeping.
The wag full softly lifts her,
And to and fro he sifts her:
But when nor sighs, Ah! nor kisses mov’d her pity,
Nor sighs could move her pity,
Nor tears could move her pity,
With plaints he warbles forth this mournful ditty.
Scheme | ABABCCDDDD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1001010101 1011010 1101010101 11011 0111010 0101110 111111101010 1111010 1111010 11110111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 359 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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