This is an analysis of That Nature Is Not Subject To Decay (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper.
Ah, how the Human Mind wearies herself
With her own wand'rings, and, involved in gloom…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdeefgeceheiaecheeXhjkdgXhelcfchemXnegXgehgghhghgdmhoifhnheobkhjcgnfhXendeglhnXXX
- Stanza lengths: 83,
- Metre: 1101011001 0011010101 0100010101 1000010101 1101011100 1101011101 11010101111 1101010101 0011011011 1011010101 1101011111 1101010101 1101000111 11010100101 1110011101 0101110101 11010011001 01100101001 1110001101 1110011101 10110101011 1101110101 10010001001 1001110101 0100010101 1100011101 1001010101 1100010101 1011111101 01001010101 1001011111 1001000101 1111010001 0101011001 1100100101 0100110101 10010101010 0101010101 1001010101 0100110011 0101010101 11010100101 1011010101 01001111001 0101010101 1101010101 11001010101 1001010111 1000011101 0101111101 11010100101 1101110101 1001110101 0100011100 01011001001 01010010111 1001010111 110010011011 1001010101 1100010101 1101000101 1101001101 11101011100 0111100101 01010100111 0101110101 0101000101 11100100101 0101010101 110100101 0101010101 1111010101 1011010101 1101110011 1101010101 1101010101 1100010101 10101010101 1001010101 1111010101 1010000101 0101010001 01010101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 83
Repeated words/phrases
by, and, still
Anaphora
by, to, the, and
