This is an analysis of On Invalids (From The Greek) by William Cowper.
Far happier are the dead, methinks, than they
Who look for death, and fear it every day.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa
- Stanza lengths: 2,
- Metre: 11001011011 11111101001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 2