Analysis of On The Same By Palladas
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
A Spartan 'scaping from the fight,
His mother met him in his flight,
Upheld a falchion to his breast,
And thus the fugitive address'd:
'Thou canst but live to blot with shame
Indelible thy mother's name,
While every breath that thou shalt draw
Offends against thy country's law;
But if thou perish by this hand,
Myself indeed, throughout the land,
To my dishonor, shall be known
The mother still of such a son;
But Sparta will be safe and free
And that shall serve to comfort me.'
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 11011011 0101111 01010001 11111111 01001101 110011111 01011101 11110111 1010101 11010111 01011101 11011101 01111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 475 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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