This is an analysis of Midnight by Thomas Hood.

Unfathomable Night! how dost thou sweep
Over the flooded earth, and darkly hide…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcede
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0100011111 1001011101 0101010111 1001010111 1011010011 1101011101 1110111001 0101101101 1100010101 1101010101 1011110111 1101111101 1001010101 0101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

no