This is an analysis of On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer by William Cowper.

Cowper had sinned with some excuse,
If, bound in rhyming tethers,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX XbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 10110101 0101010 11010001 0101110 11111001 1101010 11110101 1101010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8