Analysis of Cupid Caught Napping
Ellis Parker Butler 1869 (Muscatine) – 1937 (Williamsville)
Cupid on a summer day,
Wearied by unceasing play,
In a rose heart sleeping lay,
While, to guard the tricksy fellow,
Close above the fragrant bed
Back and forth a gruff bee sped,
And, to lull the sleepy head,
Played 'Zoom! Zoom!' upon his ‘cello.
Little did the god surmise
That sweet Anna’s cerule eyes
Gazed on him with glad surprise,
Or that he was in such danger;
But the watchman bee, in haste,
Left his post that he might taste
of the honey nature placed
On the lips of that fair stranger.
Thus unwatched, from Cupid’s side
Anna stole the boy god’s pride,
All his love darts, and then hied
Far away from capture’s chances
And today she wields the prize;
For Love’s quiver still supplies
Darts that speed from Anna’s eyes
In her love compelling glances!
Scheme | AAABCCCB DDDEFFFE GGAXDDDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 1010101 0011101 1110110 1010101 1010111 0110101 11101110 1010101 111011 1111101 11110110 1010101 1111111 1010101 10111110 111101 1010111 1111011 10111010 0011101 1110101 1111101 00101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 756 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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