This is an analysis of Thomas Hood by William Watson.

NO courtier this, and naught to courts he owed,
Fawned not on thrones, hymned not the great and callous,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cacX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11000110111 10111010101110 1011110101 110110110010 1100101011 1001010101 1111010101 1101110100 11110101001 1101110101 1101111101 1101010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

he, her, saw, and

Anaphora

he