Analysis of Kissing
Lord Edward Herbert of Cherbury 1583 (Wroxeter, Shropshire.) – 1648 (London)
Come hither Womankind and all their worth,
Give me thy kisses as I call them forth.
Give me the billig-kiss, that of the dove,
A kiss of love;
The melting-kiss, a kiss that doth consume
To a perfume;
The extract-kiss, of every sweet a part,
A kiss of art;
The kiss which ever stirs some new delight,
A kiss of might;
The twaching smacking kiss, and when you cease
A kiss of peace;
The music-kiss, crotchet and quaver time,
The kiss of rhyme;
The kiss of eloquence, which doth belong
Unto the tongue;
The kiss of all the sciences in one,
The Kiss alone.
So ‘tis enough.
Scheme | ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKLM |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 1111011111 1101011101 0111 0101011101 1001 0111100101 0111 0111011101 0111 011010111 0111 010110101 0111 0111001101 1001 0111010001 0101 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 435 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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