This is an analysis of There, Where I Saw Her Lovely Beauty Painted by John Wilbye.

There, where I saw her lovely beauty painted,
Where, Venus-like, my sacred goddess shineth,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXXbb
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 11110101010 11011101010 10100101110 11110111100 11110001100 01011110010 11010101100 11110111100 111111001001 0100101011001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Epiphora

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