Analysis of The Poet's New-Year's Gift. To Mrs. (Afterwards Lady) Throckmorton
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
Maria! I have every good
For thee wished many a time,
Both sad and in a cheerful mood,
But never yet in rhyme.
To wish thee fairer is no need,
More prudent, or more sprightly,
Or more ingenuous, or more freed
From temper-flaws unsightly.
What favour then not yet possessed
Can I for thee require,
In wedded love already blessed,
To thy whole heart's desire?
None here is happy but in part;
Full bliss is bliss divine;
There dwells some wish in every heart,
And doubtless one in thine.
That wish, on some fair future day
Which Fate shall brightly gild,
('Tis blameless, be it what it may,)
I wish it all fulfilled.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010111001 1111001 11000101 110101 11110111 1101110 110100111 1101010 1111101 111110 01010101 1111010 11110101 111101 111101001 010101 11111101 111101 11011111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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