Analysis of On The Swallow (From The Greek)
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Attic maid! with honey fed,
Bear'st thou to thy callow brood
Yonder locust from the mead,
Destined their delicious food?
Ye have kindred voices clear,
Ye alike unfold the wing,
Migrate hither, sojourn here,
Both attendant on the spring!
Ah, for pity drop the prize;
Let it not with truth be said
That a songster gasps and dies,
That a songster may be fed.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC DADA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011101 11111101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1010101 110101 1010101 1110101 1111111 101101 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 352 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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