This is an analysis of Fly, Love, Aloft by John Wilbye.

Fly, Love, aloft to heav'n and look out Fortune,
Then sweetly, sweetly, sweetly her importune,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 11010111110 11010100100 11011001010 1111110101 11010011011 10101111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6

Repeated words/phrases

sweetly

Epiphora

me