This is an analysis of Verses Written At Bath, On Finding The Heel Of A Shoe by William Cowper.

Fortune! I thank thee: gentle goddess! thanks!
Not that my muse, though bashful, shall deny…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXcaXabdXeXfXegfeXehadXXXiaaXecidbaccghbbbXd
  • Stanza lengths: 46,
  • Metre: 1011110101 1111110101 1111110111 0100011101 0101000101 1101010100 1101110110 11000100101 0101010101 1011110111 1101110101 11001010111 101111011001 11111101001 1011011111 0111010101 1111110001 0011010101 1101010011 01001010111 01001010101 10011001001 1011010101 0101011101 1010010111 0111010101 10001011101 1011011011 1001010101 1111010101 0101010100 1101011111 1011010101 10010101001 0101110011 1101010101 0101000101 1011110101 0101100101 01001110101 1100011111 1101110111 11110101001 1001000101 1111110101 1011010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 46

Repeated words/phrases

thou

Epiphora

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