Analysis of The Time When I First Fell In Love



The time when first I fell in love,
Which now I must lament;
The year wherein I lost such time
To compass my content.

The day wherein I saw too late
The follies of a lover;
The hour wherein I found such loss
As care cannot recover.

And last, the minute of mishap,
Which makes me thus to plain
The doleful fruits of lover's suits,
Which labour lose in vain:

Doth make me solemnly protest,
As I with pain do prove,
There is no time, year, day, nor hour,
Nor minute, good to love.


Scheme ABXB XCXC XDXD XXCA
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 01111101 111101 01011111 110110 01011111 0101010 010011111 1110010 0101011 111111 01011101 11101 1111001 111111 111111110 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 470
Words 96
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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