Analysis of Lyric of Lust
When I met her, met her at once she told-;
“Shall I kiss you, once to hold?”
And she kissed me and kissed me to reap;
And caressed, caressed; oh deep, oh deep.
And she asked and asked on a harp,
“Shall I embrace, an embrace, oh pretty sharp?”
And she took me, took me in her arms,
And oh pressed to her bosom; no harm.
And she asked, she asked on a hidden laugh-
“Shall I thrust you to all my thrills to walk?”
Oh, she pushed me, pushed me to her pond,
There as a spineless fish to haunt.
And she asked me, asked me so thrilled-
“Shall I kill you, kill you to be killed?”
And she danced and danced so around,
And kept me in her lust to surround.
| Scheme | AABBCCDEFGHIJJKK |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101111 1111111 011101111 001011111 01101101 11011011101 011111001 011101011 0111110101 1111111111 111111101 11010111 01111111 111111111 01101101 011001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 646 |
| Words | 137 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 474 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 133 |
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Submitted on October 09, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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