This is an analysis of Alas! What A Wretched Life Is This! by John Wilbye.
Alas! What a wretched life is this!
Nay what a death! Where tyrant Love commandeth!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 011010100 11011101100 11011011010 11111111100 111101001110 111101011110 11010111010 111100111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
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