Analysis of On The Reed (From The Greek)
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
I was of late a barren plant,
Useless, insignificant,
Nor fig, nor grape, nor apple bore,
A native of the marshy shore;
But, gather'd for poetic use,
And plunged into a sable juice,
Of which my modicum I sip
With narrow mouth and slender lip,
At once, although by nature dumb,
All eloquent I have become,
And speak with fluency untired,
As if by Phoebus' self inspired.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 100100 11111101 01010101 11010101 01010101 11110011 11010101 1111101 11001101 0111001 111101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 366 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 285 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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