Analysis of Ode to Apollo. On An Inkglass Almost Dried In The Sun
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Patron of all those luckless brains,
That, to the wrong side leaning,
Indite much metre with much pains,
And little or no meaning;
Ah why, since oceans, rivers, streams,
That water all the nations,
Pay tribute to thy glorious beams,
In constant exhalations;
Why, stooping from the noon of day,
Too covetous of drink,
Apollo, hast thou stolen away
A poet’s drop of ink?
Upborne into the viewless air,
It floats a vapour now,
Impell’d through regions dense and rare,
By all the winds that blow.
Ordain’d perhaps, ere summer flies,
Combined with millions more,
To form an iris in the skies,
Though black and foul before.
Illustrious drop! and happy then
Beyond the happiest lot,
Of all that ever pass’d my pen,
So soon to be forgot!
Phœbus, if such be thy design,
To place it in thy bow,
Give wit, that what is left may shine
With equal grace below.
Scheme | ABABCDCAEFEFGHGIJKJKLMLMNHNI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111101 1101110 01110111 0101110 11110101 1101010 110111001 0101 11010111 1111 010111001 010111 101011 11011 1110101 110111 1011101 011101 11110001 110101 010010101 0101001 11110111 111101 111111101 111011 11111111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 836 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 655 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 152 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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