Analysis of O Cupid, Cupid; Get Your Bow!

Henry Lawson 1867 (Grenfell) – 1922 (Sydney)



Arming down along the stream,
Along the sparkling water,
And past the pool where lilies gleam,
There comes the squatter’s daughter.

Her eyes are kind; her lips are warm;
And like a flower her face is;
The habit shows her bonny form
As graceful as a Grace’s.

O I’ll be mad of love, I know;
My head she’ll surely addle;
O Cupid, Cupid; get your bow;
And shoot her from the saddle!

For, like a bird on breezes waft,
She quickly, quickly passes;
O Cupid, Cupid, draw your shaft;
And bring her to the grasses!

O she is worthy game for you;
And there is none to match her.
So, Cupid, send your arrow true;
And I’ll be there to catch her!


Scheme ABAB CDCD XEXE XFXF GBGB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1010101 0101010 01011101 1101010 01110111 01010011 01010101 1101010 11111111 1111010 11010111 0101010 11011101 1101010 11010111 0101010 11110111 0111110 11011101 0111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 630
Words 124
Sentences 7
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson 17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922 was an Australian writer and poet Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period more…

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