This is an analysis of To A Friend In Distress (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend;
For when at worst, they say, things always mend.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa
  • Stanza lengths: 2,
  • Metre: 1111111111 1111111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 2