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 |
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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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