This is an analysis of Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce; Or, The Slave-Trader In The Dumps by William Cowper.
A trader I am to the African shore,
But since that my trading is like to be o'er,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaBBcccB dddB eeeB dddB dddB aaaB fffB gggB XhhBXaaaBB
- Stanza lengths: 9,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Metre: 01011001001 111110010010 11101111101 111110101 1111101 11110101101 11111101001 11111001111 11111 1010001001001 01001001011 11101101011 11111 11011011011 10101101001 11101101011 11111 1111111101 11011001011 11001011011 11111 101001001001 1100111101 101001001001 11111 11001011001 01011101001 1111101111 11111 1111001001 11111101111 11101101001 11111 11001111011 1100111001 11001101001 11111 11101011111 01011101101 01011101001 11111 10011111101 1111111111 101011001011 111110101 1111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
his, pity
Anaphora
which
Epiphora
deny
