Analysis of On A Thief (From The Greek)
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
When Aulus, the nocturnal thief, made prize
Of Hermes, swift-wing'd envoy of the skies,
Hermes, Arcadia's king, the thief divine,
Who when an infant stole Apollo's kine,
And whom, as arbiter and overseer
Of our gymnastic sports, we planted here;
'Hermes,' he cried, 'you meet no new disaster
Ofttimes the pupil goes beyond the master.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010111 1101110101 10110101 1111010101 01110001010 11001011101 10111111010 1010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 337 |
Words | 59 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 259 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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