Analysis of Lines. Oh! To Some Distant Scene

William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)



Oh! to some distant scene, a willing exile
From the wild roar of this busy world,
Were it my fate with Delia to retire,
With her to wander through the sylvan shade,
Each morn, or o'er the moss-embrowned turf,
Where, blest as the prime parents of mankind
In their own Eden, we should envy none,
But, greatly pitying whom the world calls happy
Gently spin out the silken thread of life!


Scheme ABCDEFGHI
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 101111101 0111110101 1011010101 111100111 1110110111 0111011101 110100101110 1011010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 385
Words 73
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 300
Words per stanza (avg) 71
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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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