This is an analysis of Down In A Valley As Alexis Trips by John Wilbye.
Down in a valley as Alexis trips,
Daphne sat sweetly sleeping.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbcccc
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 1001010101 1011010 1101010101 1101100 0111010 1011110 111111101010 1111010 1111010 01110101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
her, nor
Anaphora
nor
Epiphora
her, pity
