This is an analysis of The Wish by Abraham Cowley.
WELL then! I now do plainly see
This busy world and I shall ne'er agree.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabXXb ccddaeea abfffbaf eegggaaXXaaffeaae
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 11111101 1101111101 0101001101 10110101 111001110 11010101 01111100 1011010 111101001 1101111101 1011110111 11110101 11110011 01010001 101100101 100101101 11010111 11101000110 1111111101 11010011 11001101001 111010100 11010111 111110 110101 1001110001 11111101010 1111010 111101010 010011111 11111101 1101110 110111 1111110101 1101011101 010101 11110101 11111101 11010111 1110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, both, o, when
Anaphora
here