This is an analysis of To A False Friend by Thomas Hood.
Our hands have met, but not our hearts;
Our hands will never meet again.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABbbabABXCXcXcaC
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 11111111 11010101 1011100 1110101 11011111 11011101 11111111 11010101 1110111 11111101 10010101 10010101 1111100 011111001 11111111 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
our, i
Anaphora
our, friends, i