Analysis of The Look
Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
but Colin only looked at me and never kissed at all.
Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin lost in play,
but the kiss in Colin's eyes Haunts me night and day.
| Scheme | ABBCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001 10001 11010111010111 111101 10101 10101111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on November 14, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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