Analysis of To The Spanish Admiral Count Gravina
William Cowper 1731 (Berkhamsted) – 1800 (Dereham)
My rose, Gravina, blooms anew;
And steeped not now in rain,
But in Castalian streams by you,
Will never fade again.
| Scheme | ABAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010101 011101 101111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 120 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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