This is an analysis of The Salad. By Virgil by William Cowper.
The winter night now well nigh worn away,
The wakeful cock proclaimed approaching day,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddcceeffgghhaaccggccXieeggjjeecciiggccbbkkccXgjjccggeellXciiffcchhmmllccllllggcceejjggccccccggccbbccggllggggXeeeeehhiiiieegggffgggdXffeXllcccceeaacchh
- Stanza lengths: 156,
- Metre: 0101111101 01001010101 1100110001 01001010101 1101110001 0101010100 1101010101 1100010101 1101010101 1011010101 01010010101 11010101101 11000101001 1100010101 1101010001 01001111101 0101110101 0100111001001 1101110101 0101011101 0101110111 1001010101 1101010101 110110001 1001011101 1001010101 11100110010 0101110101 0101010011 1011010101 1101010111 1101100101 1101011001 0101110101 111101111 1101100101 0101011101 1111010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101110101 10001110101 1101111001 1101010101 11010100101 01010001001 0100010101 01010111101 1101110101 1101011101 0111010110 10001010111 0101110101 1100011001 1100010111 0101010101 1101010101 1001010101 01111100001 0101010101 1101010101 110011101 1101110100 1101000101 1100110101 0101110001 1100110001 0101010101 01110010101 1111010111 1101110101 0101010101 0111110101 0011100101 0101011011 1110110101 1001010101 01110100101 11011100001 1101110101 10110011111 1101010101 1110010111 1111011101 0101011101 1101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1101010101 01110100000 1101110101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010001 10010001001 0101011101 1111010101 0101010101 0111011101 1101000101 1101100101 0111110101 1101011101 0101110111 1111110111 10110010111 11011001001 11011000001 1101010101 1001010101 1110110001 0101010111 1100011101 1101011101 0101010111 1011110111 1101010101 11110101001 11010101101 0101010101 1101010111 001001110101 1101010101 1001000101 1110111111 10101010101 1101010101 0001011101 1100010101 0101011101 11010010001 1111010101 10110111001 1101011101 0101010101 1111010101 1011010111 01011101010 0101110111 011010111 0101110101 1101011110 1100010101 11000010101 1011010001 1011000101 1101010101 0111010101 111100111 0111010001 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 0011010111 11010101001 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 156
Repeated words/phrases
his, it, with, and, to, on, he
Anaphora
the, with, on
