Analysis of On A Bath, By Plato

William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)



Did Cytherea to the skies
From this pellucid lymph arise?
Or was it Cytherea's touch,
When bathing here, that made it such?


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Tanaga 
Metre 1010101 111101 11111 11011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 128
Words 24
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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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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