Analysis of Poem 91
Edmund Spenser 1552 (London) – 1599 (London)
I Saw in secret to my Dame,
How little Cupid humbly came:
and sayd to her All hayle my mother.
But when he saw me laugh, for shame:
His face with bashfull blood did flame,
not knowing Venus from the other,
Then neuer blush Cupid (quoth I)
for many haue err'd in this beauty.
| Scheme | AABAABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010111 11010101 011011110 11111111 1111111 110101010 11011011 110110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 275 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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