This is an analysis of By Moschus by William Cowper.
I slept when Venus enter'd: to my bed
A Cupid in her beauteous hand she led,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXXbaaccddeebb
- Stanza lengths: 17,
- Metre: 1111010011 0100010111 0101011111 1001110111 1101111101 1111110101 10011110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1011111101 11010100101 0111010101 01010010101 1101010101 0101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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