This is an analysis of Alas What Hope Of Speeding by John Wilbye.
Alas what hope of speeding
Where hope beguiled lies bleeding?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbb
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 0111010 1101110 1111111 1111111 111101 111101 1011110 0111110 1010011 1111011
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
she
Epiphora
me
