This is an analysis of To My Wife, On The 13th Anniversary Of Our Wedding Day by Thomas Cowherd.
A thousand joys, my darling wife,
Be thine on this our marriage day!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdddd efefgdgdeee hhhhijiXfff bkbkcfcfeee cjcjcdcdhhh lmlmgagaeee
- Stanza lengths: 11,11,11,11,11,11,
- Metre: 01011101 01101101 11111101 11110101 11000111 11110001 11110101 11000101 1111 1101 11010011 11111101 11011110 11111111 11111101 01010101 11010101 11111101 01111111 01001 0101 11110101 11111111 11011111 11000101 11011111 11111101 11110100 01011101 11010000 0110 0101 11110101 11111101 11011101 01110101 11011101 101100110 01111111 111101010 11010101 0111 1011 11010111 11110101 01010100 11111101 00110100 01010101 01010111 11011111 11010101 1111 0101 01010111 11110101 11011101 11010111 01111101 01110111 11110101 11110101 11010101 0111 1101 011001011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 66
