This is an analysis of Life by Abraham Cowley.
Life's a name
That nothing here can truly claim;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccbXXddeeffcc
- Stanza lengths: 17,
- Metre: 101 11011101 0101111101 111101 11010011 11010101 1011101011111 01111101 1101111111 0111110111 11011100101 0111010100 0101010100 1111110001 11011 1111111111 110101101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
and, we
Anaphora
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