This is an analysis of Ye That Do Live In Pleasures by John Wilbye.

Ye that do live in pleasures plenty,
and dwell in Music's sweetest Airs,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbb cdadcX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 111101010 11010101 111111110 11011101 110110101 1101110111 11011111 11010101 11010100 11110101 11010101011 10011101111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12