This is an analysis of Ode To Melancholy by Thomas Hood.
Come, let us set our careful breasts,
Like Philomel, against the thorn,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbabcbdbeb afXffffgafafXgfhghibib hjjjfkafkaXl jllmjmamjmmXmem elhlhlblelcllflbib bafalajaahah XehelbeehehahehahXglelflfllgcgdg
- Stanza lengths: 12,22,12,15,18,12,32,
- Metre: 11111101 11000101 01010101 11010101 01110101 01110101 11110101 01000101 11011001 010111001 01010111 11010111 01000100 111111001 11110100 111101 11111101 11011110 10010101 111010100 11111101 01101111 11010111 01110011 11011101 001100 11010111 11011101 110111010 11010101 11111111 11111101 11010011 11011101 11110001 01111101 11011111 110101 11110101 111101010 1101101 11110111 0111010 1010111 10110101 1110101 11110101 10010101 1101001001 11110101 11010101 01010101 110101001 01011101 11001101 110101 11011101 110011101 10010110 01010100 110101 11011111 010011101 11010101 11010101 10110101 11111101 010011101 01011101 11010111 11111111 11010101 11010100 11111101 10111101 011111 01011101 11110101 110101 11111111 11111101 11110101 01111110 010100101 01010011 11010011 01010101 11011101 01011101 11010100 110101 11100101 011010111 11111001 11010101 11111001 01001101 110001 01100101 01010111 01010101 01110111 10011101 01110111 01111101 01011101 11000101 11111101 111101010 10010101 010101001 11010101 10010101 11010001 10110001 110101 11010101 011111010 10110001 1101001010 11010101 110101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 122
Repeated words/phrases
and, our, of, her
Anaphora
and, the, our
