This is an analysis of False Poets And True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood.

Look how the lark soars upward and is gone,
Turning a spirit as he nears the sky!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcXccdcdaa
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101110101 1001011101 0101110101 0101010001 111101111 01111101001 1101001100 1101000101 1110111111 1101110101 01010100101 01010101001 1101110001 1101000111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14