This is an analysis of Sonnet To Henry Cowper, Esq. by William Cowper.
Cowper, whose silver voice, tasked sometimes hard,
Legends prolix delivers in the ears…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba acca adeade
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,6,
- Metre: 1011011011 1010010001 0101110101 1111111101 1111010101 1101111101 1100101101001 11101110011 1111011101 1111110101 01011101001 1101110111 11011111001 0101110011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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