Analysis of On A Similar Character (From The Greek)
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
You give your cheks a rosy stain,
With washes dye your hair;
But paint and washes both are vain
To give a youthful air.
Those wrinkles mock your daily toil,
No labor will efface 'em,
You wear a mask of smoothest oil,
Yet still with ease we trace 'em.
An art so fruitless then forsake,
Which though you much excel in,
You never can contrive to make
Old Hecuba young Helen.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11110101 110111 11010111 110101 11011101 1101011 11011101 1111111 11110101 1111010 11010111 1100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 369 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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