This is an analysis of the poem To Cowper that begins with:

Sweet are thy strains, celestial Bard;
And oft, in childhood's years,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdcbc Xded Xfgh Xdad Xghg afeh aici Xfbf ddad egdgXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 110100 1101011001 010101 01001101 1101001 11110111 011101 11110111 010101 11011101 110101 10110101 010100 01100101 111101 11110111 110101 10010001 110111 01010101 110101 11011111 111111 010101000 0010100 101100101 111101 111100111 111101 01011101 111101 01110111 111100 11001101 110100 11010001 0100101 11010001 010101 11110101 0100101 11011101 111101 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that are repeated.

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  • summary of To Cowper;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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