This is an analysis of Sport by Abraham Cowley.
The merry waves dance up and down, and play,
Sport is granted to the sea;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabBccbBaadd
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 0101111111 1010001 11010000101 1010101 01111011001 1010001 01001011111 1010101 0101000101 11101100 1011110111 10010001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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