This is an analysis of Ode On The Death Of A Lady, Who Lived One Hundred Years, And Died On Her Birthday, 1728 (Translation) by William Cowper.
Ancient dame, how wide and vast
To a race like ours appears,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede bdbd ffff ffff fgfg dhdh aiaiXafaf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1011111 0011101 1001111 1110100 1010101 10101010 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010001 1010111 1010101 1010001 1011101 1111101 1110001 1011001 1000101 1011111 1111101 1111111 1011111 1010101 1101111 00101110 10010101 11101010 00100011 10011101 1010011 1010111 1011001 1110101 1110101 1010001 1010101 1110010 10101001 1111101 1110101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
of, that, and
Anaphora
some
