Analysis of Answer To Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh By Miss Catharine Fanshawe, In Returning A Poem

William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)



To be remembered thus is fame,
And in the first degree;
And did the few like her the same,
The press might sleep for me.

So Homer, in the memory stored
Of many a Grecian belle,
Was once preserved -- a richer hoard,
But never lodged so well.


Scheme ABAB CDCD
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 11010111 000101 01011001 011111 110001001 1100101 11010101 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 241
Words 50
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Cowper

William Macquarie Cowper was an Australian Anglican archdeacon and Dean of Sydney. more…

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