Analysis of The Kiss
Coventry Patmore 1823 (Woodford, London) – 1896 (Lymington)
'I saw you take his kiss!' ''Tis true.'
'O, modesty!' ' 'Twas strictly kept:
He thought me asleep; at least I knew
He thought I thought he thought I slept.'
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111111 11001101 111011111 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 161 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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