This is an analysis of The Water Lady by Thomas Hood.
Alas, the moon should ever beam
To show what man should never see!—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcecefgfghihibibi
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 01011101 01111101 11010101 1111 11010101 01011101 01010001 0101 11010101 01110101 01010101 1001 11010101 01010111 01010101 01001 11110101 01110101 11110001 1101 11110101 11111101 11110101 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
her, i
Anaphora
i
