This is an analysis of When Shall My Wretched Life by John Wilbye.
When shall my wretched life give place to death?
That my sad cares may be enforc’d to leave me.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc
- Stanza lengths: 6,
- Metre: 1111011101 11111010011 1101111101 11111111011 0111101101 1111111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 6
Repeated words/phrases
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