This is an analysis of To The Poet Cowper, On His Recovery From An Indisposition by Charles Lamb.

WRITTEN SOME TIME BACK.

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X aXbacdedXeXaaXccb
  • Stanza lengths: 1,17,
  • Metre: 10111 1011111111 1101010001 1111011011 0101011111 1111110101 1011000111 11001110111 0001010011 010101011 011100101010 1101100101 0101010101 101010111 011101001001 0011010101 1111010101 100101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 19