This is an analysis of My Throat Is Sore by John Wilbye.
My throat is sore, my voice is hoarse with skriking,
My rests are sighs, deep from the heart’s root fetched;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabaXb
- Stanza lengths: 6,
- Metre: 11011101010 1111100111 11111110110 1111110101 11111111110 11011011010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 6
Repeated words/phrases
my, with
Anaphora
my
