This is an analysis of Time, Hope And Memory by Thomas Hood.
I heard a gentle maiden, in the spring,
Set her sweet sighs to music, and thus sing:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXddXXeeXXeebX
- Stanza lengths: 20,
- Metre: 11010100001 1011010111 1101110101 1011111111 1011011111 110110111 0001010011 1011110110 1101111101 1011110101 1111010101 1111111011 1101010101 1101110101 1111101101 10110101110 10010001111 0100011101 1111110111 1111110011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
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