Analysis of Cupid and My Campaspe

John Lyly 1553 (Canterbury) – 1606 (London)



Cupid and my Campaspe played
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 lip, 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 to thee?
What shall, alas, become of me?


Scheme ABACCCCDDEEFFGG
Poetic Form Tetractys  (27%)
Metre 100111 11110 101 111101010 110101110 10111111 01011101 10111111 11010111 01010111 111111 11110111 11010111 11111111 11010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 493
Words 97
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 367
Words per stanza (avg) 95
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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John Lyly

John Lyly was an English writer, poet, dramatist, playwright, and politician, best known for his books Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England. more…

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