Analysis of The Look



Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin inthe fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Atrephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.


Scheme XAXA XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111001 1011 11010111 010111 111101 10101 101011 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 207
Words 41
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on November 14, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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