Analysis of Cards and Kisses
CUPID and my Campaspe play'd
At cards for kisses--Cupid paid:
He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
Loses them too; then down he throws
The coral of his lips, the rose
Growing on 's cheek (but none knows how);
With these, the crystal of his brow,
And then the dimple of his chin:
All these did my Campaspe win.
At last he set her both his eyes--
She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
O Love! has she done this for thee?
What shall, alas! become of me?
Scheme | AABBBBCCDDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111 11110101 111101010 110101110 10111111 01011101 101111111 11010111 01010111 111111 11110111 11010111 11111111 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 505 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 368 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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