This is an analysis of A Mood by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

A blight, a gloom, I know not what, has crept upon my gladness--
Some vague, remote ancestral touch of sorrow, or of madness;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXbb
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 010111111101110 110101010101010 011011011111010 010101010111100 010111011111110 1101110110101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6

Repeated words/phrases

of, not

Anaphora

a