This is an analysis of Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood.
Young Ben he was a nice young man,
A carpenter by trade;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efff bcfX gheh XfbX gcXX aXXd iXaX diai jeeX kbiX aaaa adXX kcXc Xbbb jlbl
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110111 010011 111010101 110101 11110111 110111 11010101 111110 01010101 010101 11101001 110101 10101110111 101011 11110011 0101010 111011100 110101 11111101 010001 10011101100 111111 101000101 1111010 01001100 10110011 101111101 1100010 100110111 0101100 101010101 101111 111010101 00101110 110101101 100111110 101100111 111101 11010110 111101 100111101 010101 11111101 11010100 111101001 110101 10100111 1101010 11111101 011111 11110101 110111 101011101 111111 110100101 1101010 11010101 110101 11010101 110101 1111011010 111111 01111111 010111 01110001 110101 11110101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 68
Repeated words/phrases
and, ship, then, his, he
Anaphora
and, his
