Analysis of Cupid Far Gone



I.
What, so beyond all madnesse is the elf,
  Now he hath got out of himself!
  His fatal enemy the Bee,
  Nor his deceiv'd artillerie,
  His shackles, nor the roses bough
Ne'r half so netled him, as he is now.

II.
See! at's own mother he is offering;
  His finger now fits any ring;
  Old Cybele he would enjoy,
  And now the girl, and now the boy.
  He proffers Jove a back caresse,
And all his love in the antipodes.

III.
Jealous of his chast Psyche, raging he
  Quarrels with student Mercurie,
  And with a proud submissive breath
  Offers to change his darts with Death.
  He strikes at the bright eye of day,
And Juno tumbles in her milky way.

IV.
The dear sweet secrets of the gods he tells,
  And with loath'd hate lov'd heaven he swells;
  Now, like a fury, he belies
  Myriads of pure virginities,
  And swears, with this false frenzy hurl'd,
There's not a vertuous she in all the world.

V.
Olympus he renownces, then descends,
  And makes a friendship with the fiends;
  Bids Charon be no more a slave,
  He Argos rigg'd with stars shall have,
  And triple Cerberus from below
Must leash'd t' himself with him a hunting go.


Scheme ABBCDEE AFFGGHH ACDIIJJ BKKXHLL CXXXXMM
Poetic Form Tetractys  (29%)
Metre 1 110111101 11111101 11010001 11011 11010101 1111111111 1 1111011100 11011101 111101 01010101 1110110 0111001 1 1011110101 101101 01010101 10111111 11101111 0101000101 1 0111010111 011111011 11010101 1111 01111101 110110101 1 01011101 01010101 11011101 1111111 0101101 11101110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,183
Words 207
Sentences 15
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 7, 7, 7, 7, 7
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 168
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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