Analysis of On Invalids (From The Greek)

William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)



Far happier are the dead, methinks, than they
Who look for death, and fear it every day.


Scheme AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1100101111 11110111001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 95
Words 19
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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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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