This is an analysis of Why Was Cupid A Boy by William Blake.
Why was Cupid a boy,
And why a boy was he?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXa XaXa abXb XcXc Xaba
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111001 110111 111001 111111 111001 1011001 11111011 111111 1011001 10101101 101101001 1100101 1111101 11001001 10110001 001101001 101101 110001 1100001101 10111001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
for, and
Anadiplosis
he
