Analysis of Mother Bombie
O Cupid ! Monarch ouer Kings,
Wherefore hast thou feete and wings?
It is to shew how swift thou art,
When thou wound'st a tender heart:
Thy wings being clip'd, and feete held still,
Thy Bow so many could not kill.
It is all one in Venus wanton schoole,
Who highest sits, the wise man or the foole:
Fooles in loues colledge
Haue farre more knowledge,
To reade a woman ouer,
Than a neate prating louer.
Nay, tis confest,
That fooles please women best.
Scheme | AABBCC CCXXDDBX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 111101 11111111 11110101 111010111 11110111 1111010101 1101011101 10110 11110 110101 10111 111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 174 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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