This is an analysis of What Needeth All This Travail? by John Wilbye.
What needeth all this travail and turmoiling
Shortening the life's pleasure…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaX
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 11010011100 1000110 0101110 01110101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
