Analysis of The Wounded Cupid
Robert Herrick 1591 (London) – 1674 (Dean Prior)
Cupid as he lay among
Roses, by a Bee was stung.
Whereupon in anger flying
To his Mother, said thus crying;
Help! O help! your Boy's a dying.
And why, my pretty Lad, said she?
Then blubbering, replyed he,
A winged Snake has bitten me,
Which Country people call a Bee.
At which she smil'd; then with her hairs
And kisses drying up his tears:
Alas! said she, my Wag! if this
Such a pernicious torment is:
Come, tel me then, how great's the smart
Of those, thou woundest with thy Dart!
Scheme | AABBBCCCCDDEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1011101 1010111 10101010 11101110 11111010 01110111 1111 0111101 11010101 11111101 01010111 01111111 1001011 11111101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 490 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 364 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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