This is an analysis of When Cloris Heard by John Wilbye.
When Cloris heard of her Amyntas dying,
She grieved then for her unkind denying:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbXcc
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 11010010010 1111001010 11011001100 1111111101 111001 111110 11111101 11100111
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
die, i
