This is an analysis of Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper.
Though once a puppy, and though Fop by name,
Here moulders one whose bones some honour claim;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccXX
- Stanza lengths: 10,
- Metre: 110101111111 1101111101 1100110101 1111010001 1101010001 1111010001 0010010101 1111010101 100101011101 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
though
