This is an analysis of the poem To A Friend In Distress (Translated From Owen) that begins with:
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend;
For when at worst, they say, things always mend.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111111 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 2
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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More information about poems by William Cowper
- Analysis of To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There
- Analysis of To An Afflicted Protestant Lady In France
- Analysis of To William Hayley, Esq. June 29, 1793.
