Analysis of On Hermocratia (From The Greek)
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Hermocratia named -- save only one --
Twice fifteen births I bore, and buried none;
For neither Phoebus pierced my thriving joys,
Nor Dian -- she my girls, or he my boys.
But Dian rather, when my daughters lay
In parturition, chased their pangs away.
And all my sons, by Phoebus' bounty, shared
A vigorous youth, by sickness unimpair'd.
O Niobe! far less prolific! see
Thy hoast against Latona shamed by me!
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111101 1011110101 1101011101 1101111111 1101011101 0111101 0111110101 0100111001 11110101 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 406 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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