This is an analysis of Thomas Hood by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
The man who cloaked his bitterness within
This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXba cdceed
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0111010001 0101011100 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 1111000100 0101010100 1101110001 1111111011 0111010101 1111110111 1001010101 1001010111 1101001001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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