Analysis of Sighs



All night I muse, all day I cry,
        Ay me!
    Yet still I wish, though still deny,
        Ay me!
    I sigh, I mourn, and say that still
    I only live my joys to kill,
        Ay me !

I feed the pain that on me feeds,
        Ay me!
  My wound I stop not, though it bleeds,
      Ay me!
  Heart, be content, it must be so,
  For springs were made to overflow,
      Ay me!

Then sigh and weep, and mourn thy fill,
      Ay me!
  Seek no redress, but languish still,
      Ay me!
  Their griefs more willing they endure
  That know when they are past recure,
      Ay me!


Scheme aBaBccB dBdBeeB cBcBxaB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 11 11111101 11 11110111 11011111 11 11011111 11 11111111 11 11101111 1101110 11 11010111 11 11011101 11 11110101 1111111 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 574
Words 106
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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