Analysis of On A Good Man (From The Greek)

William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)



Traveller, regret not me; for thou shalt find
Just cause of sorrow none in my decease,
Who, dying, children's children left behind,
And with one wife lived many a year in peace;
Three virtuous youths espoused my daughters three,
And oft their infants in my bosom lay,
Nor saw I one of all derived from me,
Touch'd with disease, or torn by death away.
Their duteous hands my funeral rites bestow'd,
And me, by blameless manners fitted well
To seek it, sent to the serene abode
Where shades of pious men forever dwell.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEF
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Metre 10001111111 1111010101 1101010101 01111100101 11001011101 0111001101 1111110111 1101111101 1111100101 0111010101 1111100101 1111010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 513
Words 95
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 405
Words per stanza (avg) 93
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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William Cowper

William Macquarie Cowper was an Australian Anglican archdeacon and Dean of Sydney. more…

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