This is an analysis of Death by Thomas Hood.

It is not death, that sometime in a sigh
This eloquent breath shall take its speechless flight;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0011111001 01001110101 1111111101 0110011101 1011011101 11110010101 1111100101 01010011101 0011010101 1101110111 0101000101 1101111111 1001011101 1101000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

in, that, and, to