I scanned two lines with some surmise <br />As over Keats I chanced to pore: <br />'And there I shut her wild, wild eyes <br /> With kisses four.' <br /> <br />Says I: 'Why was it only four, <br />Not five or six or seven? <br />I think I would have made it more,-- <br /> Even eleven. <br /> <br />'Gee! If she'd lured a guy like me <br />Into her gelid grot <br />I'd make that Belle Dame sans Merci <br /> Sure kiss a lot. <br /> <br />'Them poets have their little tricks; <br />I think John counted kisses for, <br />Not two or three or five or six <br /> To rhyme with "sore."' <br /><br />Robert William Service<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-kisses-had-john-keats/
