This is an analysis of To My Beloved Wife, During Affliction, 1842 by Thomas Cowherd.
Ann, we have lived in peace for three long years.
Much pleasure we have had, some crosses too;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb XcXX dede fdfd dede gcgX bfbf caca gbgb egeg XhXh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111011110 1101111101 0101100101 1001010111 1101011100 1101110111 1111101101 11001110101 0111100110 1110111010 1111111101 0111011111 1101111101 1011011111 0100110101 1101111101 1101010001 1101110101 1111011011 11110100101 1101011101 0101011111 11001101001 0101011101 1101010011 0100110111 1101011101 1101010101 1111111101 11001110101 1111011101 11001110101 0111010101 0101011101 10010010101 01010101001 1111011101 01010100101 1101110001 0101100101 1101110101 1001111101 110100101111 0101011101 1111110100 0101110001 1111110101 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
we, in, and
Anaphora
in
