This is an analysis of There Is A Jewel by John Wilbye.

There is a jewel, which no Indian mines
Can buy, no chymic art can counterfeit,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXaa
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 10010111001 1111011101 0111010100 1101110101 0101001101 1001010101 1101010110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7