Analysis of Why Was Cupid a Boy
William Blake 1757 (Soho) – 1827 (London)
Why was Cupid a boy,
And why a boy was he?
He should have been a girl,
For aught that I can see.
For he shoots with his bow,
And the girl shoots with her eye,
And they both are merry and glad,
And laugh when we do cry.
And to make Cupid a boy
Was the Cupid girl's mocking plan;
For a boy can't interpret the thing
Till he is become a man.
And then he's so pierc'd with cares,
And wounded with arrowy smarts,
That the whole business of his life
Is to pick out the heads of the darts.
'Twas the Greeks' love of war
Turn'd Love into a boy,
And woman into a statue of stone--
And away fled every joy.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC ADXD XEXE XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111001 010111 111101 111111 111111 0011101 01111001 011111 0111001 10101101 101101001 1110101 0111111 010111 10110111 111101101 101111 110101 010010111 00111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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