Analysis of An Epitaph 2 (From The Greek)
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Take to thy bosom, gentle earth, a swain
With much hard labor in thy service worn!
He set the vines that clothe yon ample plain,
And he these olives that the vale adorn.
He fill'd with grain the glebe; the rills he led
Through this green herbage, and those fruitful bowers;
Thou, therefore, earth! lie lightly on his head,
His hoary head, and deck his grave with flowers.
Scheme | ABABCDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 1111010101 1111001101 1101111101 0111010101 1111010111 1111011010 111110111 11010111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 372 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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