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 |
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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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