This is an analysis of On A Battered Beauty (From The Greek) by William Cowper.

Hair, wax, rouge, honey, teeth you buy,
A multifarious store!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11110111 010001 01111101 110111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Anaphora

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