This is an analysis of The Lady's Dream by Thomas Hood.
The lady lay in her bed,
Her couch so warm and soft,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbab Xdedfd ghbhaX gaiaXa XhXhah aibXei hjcjbj gckcbc dadaaa aididi jldlll gcacbc kahaia fabaia faiaia abcbbXXihchhh
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 0101001 011111 1011101101 1101011 010111011 110101 111101 1110101 001011011 110101 11001011001 010101 010101 0101101 10111101001 101001 10111011111 111101 110101 0010101 1110010101 111101 1111011 0100111 111101 1101101 010101101 110101 1011110101 1101101 10111001 111101 110010111 1101010 111101101 011101 110101 01100111 1010101 0111001 010111011 010101 1011101 0011101 0010101001 110101 011101111 1111001 101101001 1011111 10100110101 1101001 0100111111 01001111 1101111 1010001 110010111 010100 110010101 111101 11011101 1100101 111101101 111101 111100110 101111 1101001 1101001 110110101 1101011 01010101 011101 1011111 110111 1100101101 1101001 0101100101 10101 110101 1111000 1111111 011101 11100100101 111101 1110101 0101011 011101101 0101101 11100100101 110101 111111 0101011 110101011 011101 110011101 111101 110101 1010101 11101111 011101 111111001 110101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 17
- Lines: 102
Repeated words/phrases
her, and, death, of, i, might, have
Anaphora
and, of, the
