This is an analysis of The Dream Fairy by Thomas Hood.
A little fairy comes at night,
Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown’…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb ddad ceae Xdbd ccXc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01010111 01110101 01010101 10011101 11010101 11001101 11010101 11010101 11010101 01010101 11110101 11110101 01010101 010101101 11110001 11110001 11010101 11011101 11010101 101011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
her, and
Anaphora
and