This is an analysis of Softly, O! Dropp Mine Eyes by John Wilbye.
Softly, O! dropp mine eyes, lest you be dry,
And make my heart with grief to melt and die.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddeeaa
- Stanza lengths: 13,
- Metre: 1011111101 1111010111 111101 111101 11011 0111111111 111111011101 11110101 1111011100 110111110 11111111010 11011111 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
o
Anaphora
now
