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.
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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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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