Analysis of Samson to his Delilah
Richard Crashaw 1612 (London) – 1649 (Loreto, Marche)
Could not once blinding me, cruel, suffice?
When first I look'd on thee, I lost mine eyes.
Scheme | AB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011001 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 97 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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