This is an analysis of The Innocent Ill by Abraham Cowley.
Though all thy gestures and discourses be
Coin'd and stamp'd by modesty;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaacdcdeee ffeebgaghhh aaiifefejjj eekkbgbgddd
- Stanza lengths: 11,11,11,11,
- Metre: 1111010100 1111100 10111101 11111110111 11010101 011101 110110101 1110011 11000101 011111001 1101011101 1011110110 111001001 11110111 01001001101 1010100 10110101 01111111 11011111 1010101 10110101 0111011101 1011110100 101110101 11011101 0111111001 11011101 11101101 01111111 111001100 01011101 11010101 01010010101 1101000101 11011101 11010101 1111110111 11110100 11100001 11000100 11111101 11011101 11001101 1110010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
of, thou, so
Anaphora
that, thou, so
Anadiplosis
you
