Analysis of Living Water
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
The fountain in its source,
No drought of summer fears;
The farther it pursues its course,
The nobler it appears.
But shallow cisterns yield
A scanty short suply;
The morning sees them amply filled,
At evening they are dry.
| Scheme | ABABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010011 111101 01010111 010101 110101 01011 01011101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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