This is an analysis of Gold! by Thomas Hood.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AaaaaaaaaAabcccb
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1111 1110111 10101011 10011101 1010111 1011101 1111111 00100111 10100101 1111 0110101 110010010 010100101 110010101 110010011 11001010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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