This is an analysis of On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica by William Cowper.
Oh fond attempt to give a deathless lot,
To names ignoble, born to be forgot!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXXXee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010101 0101010001 0101000101 1101000101 11001010001 11110100101 101010111 11010010101 1101110101 1101001111 01011101010 1111011101 11010101001 11110100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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