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;…
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