This is an analysis of I Sung Sometimes by John Wilbye.
I sung sometimes my thoughts’ and fancy's pleasure,
Where then I list, or time serv’d best and leisure,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 11011111010 11111111110 1100011 01011101011 1111010 11111101010 1111010 11111111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, me, drank, her
Epiphora
me, her
