This is an analysis of To A Sleeping Child by Thomas Hood.
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Oh, 'tis a touching thing, to make one weep,—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a baabbaabcXcXdd X eaaeeaaXeaeaff
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,
- Metre: 1 1101010111 01010001001 1010110111 0101010001 1001010111 1101000111 1101011101 0111110101 01011011001 1101110101 1101010111 11011111010 1100011101 1011010001 1 1111110011 1111110011 1101011101 1111001101 0101110111 1101011101 1111011101 11011111100 1101010101 1101110011 11001010001 1101011101 1111000111 0111011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 31
Anaphora
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