This is an analysis of To A Cold Beauty by Thomas Hood.

Lady, wouldst thou heiress be
To Winters cold and cruel part?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccddXdeeXcXcffbXcXaa
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 1011100 01011101 1110101 1111111 1110101 10010011 1110111 11011101 11110101 1000101 1110101 01011101 1010110 1111111 1110101 10010101 1111101 0110001 1110101 1010101 1011101 11011110 11110101 00111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

to, and

Anaphora

thou