This is an analysis of On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper.

Cocoa-nut naught,
Fish too dear,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aaaa efef
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1011 111 1101 11111 11011 11011 01101 1001 11101 11101 10101 101011 101101 11001 11111 111111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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