This is an analysis of O, What Shall I Do by John Wilbye.
O, what shall I do, or whither shall I turn me?
Shall I make unto her eyes? O, no, they'll burn me!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa ddeeffda
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 111111101111 111100111111 1111111111 1001011111 111010111 111011111 1101 1101 111111101010 111011111110 1111111111 0111010101 1010011 0011101 1100 1111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
i, my, thy
Anaphora
shall
Epiphora
me
