Analysis of Poem 90

Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)



IN youth before I waxed old.
The blynd boy Venus baby,
For want of cunning made me bold,
In bitter byue to grope for honny.
But when he saw me stung and cry,
He tooke his wings and away did fly.
As Diane hunted on a day,
She chaunst to come where Cupid lay,
his quiuer by his head:
One of his shafts she stole away,
And one of hers did close conuay,
into the others stead:
With that loue wounded my loues hart,
but Diane beasts with Cupids dart.


Scheme ABACDDEEFECFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 0101111 0111010 11110111 01011111 11111101 111100111 10110101 11111101 11111 11111101 0110111 010101 11110111 10111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 440
Words 92
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 342
Words per stanza (avg) 90
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. more…

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