Analysis of A Kiss
John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)
LOVE is a plant with double root,
And of strange, elastic power:
Men's minds are divided in naming the fruit,
But a kiss is only the flower.
Scheme | ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011101 01101010 11101001001 101110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 148 |
Words | 29 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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