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
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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Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was born in London, England, in 1591. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith (his uncle, Sir William), but went to Cambridge, at St John's, in 1613. He was ordained at Peterborough in 1623 and became chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham a few years later. "Hesperides" - a collection of 1200 lyrical poems - was published in 1648 and it remained his magnum opus. Herrick died in 1674, aged 83. more…

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