This is an analysis of Of Wit by Abraham Cowley.
TELL me, O tell, what kind of thing is Wit,
Thou who Master art of it.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeffbbee ggggaahh aaiXiijX aaeehhXX ccjXbbaa kkjXXXhh jjlliijXXddaahhcb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 1111110101 1110100 10110101001 11011100111 010100101 10010101 1011011111 1100011111 1011011111 01110011 1111010101 1101100101 11111101 11010101 1010010011 11010100101 1101110101 110101 1111010101 1111010111 11011101 010010101 1101111101 0101110101 1101110101 011101 1101111001 110001001010 10010111 01000101 1100111111 11110111 1110011111 111111 1011111101 1011111101 10010101 01010101 11011111111 010111010 1111111111 11111101 0111110111 010110001 11111101 11010101 11010110111 0101110101 1111111101 11000101 10110000101 1011011100 10111001 11111000 10011101001 1101110001 0011011110 111101 10011001111 1101110111 110100101 01011101 1011010101 01110001 1111111101 11011101 1111111111 1101010001 01110011 1010111 1111110100 11001111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 72
Repeated words/phrases
, be, all, you, and
Anaphora
in, nor
Anadiplosis
less
