This is an analysis of Ovid. Trist. Lib. V. Elegy Xii. by William Cowper.
You bid me write to amuse the tedious hours,
And save from withering my poetic powers;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddeeccddbbffddgacceehhiiaaccjjaahhkkddgaccddeeiiddaallkkbb
- Stanza lengths: 65,
- Metre: 1111001010010 110100101010 1001111111 0011110111 1001010101 1011110111 1111110111 11010101 1011110101 1111010101 00010100101 1101010101 0101110101 1101011111 1101010101 11111100111 11001111101 1101110111 110010011111 1101110101 10111100101 1101010101 1011010001 1011111101 0011010101 0101100101 0101010101 01111101001 1101110101 1101111101 1111011101 1101001001 1001010101 1111100101 1101010101 01010100101 11010101001 10010101001 1101010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101110111 1101010111 0001110111 1110010101 11010010101 1111010101 1110011110 0100110101 1111001101 11001010101 11010010001 1001110101 0101110101 1111010111 1100110101 1101111011 10111010101 0101010101 110101001010 11010101010 0101100101 1101010111 1101011101 01001111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 65
Repeated words/phrases
my, and
Anaphora
the
