Analysis of Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome (Translated From Milton)

William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)



Another Leonora once inspir'd
Tasso, with fatal love to frenzy fir'd,
But how much happier, liv'd he now, were he,
Pierced with whatever pangs for love of Thee!
Since could he hear that heavenly voice of thine,
With Adriana's lute of sound divine,
Fiercer than Pentheus' tho' his eye might roll,
Or idiot apathy benumb his soul,
You still, with medicinal sounds, might cheer
His senses wandering in a blind career;
And sweetly breathing thro' his wounded breast,
Charm, with soul-soothing song, his thoughts to rest.


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Poetic Form
Metre 0100101010 1110111010 11110011101 111011111 11111100111 1111101 101111111 1100100111 1110100111 11010000101 0101011101 1111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 513
Words 88
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 406
Words per stanza (avg) 86
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Cowper

William Macquarie Cowper was an Australian Anglican archdeacon and Dean of Sydney. more…

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