This is an analysis of So Light Is Love by John Wilbye.

So light is love, in matchless beauty shining,
When she revisits Cypris' hallow'd bowers,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 11010101010 11010101010 11011001010 110100101010 100111010 1101111111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6