This is an analysis of An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson's History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper.
Say, ye apostate and profane,
Wretches, who blush not to disdain…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabccb aadeed ffgbbg bXhbbh bbbccb iiaaaa jjkllk
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 11010101 10111001 010011 010110101 01010101 111001 11010101 10011101 110001 0100001001 110100101 010101 01010101 01011101 010001 11011101 111001001 010101 01000101 0010111000 010101 01001001 11010101 100101 11010001 11010110 0100011 11001101 10110111 010101 11101111 10110111 0101001 11110111 11110101 010101 10111101 11110001 010101 11011111 00111101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
the, to
