Analysis of A Mood
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
A blight, a gloom, I know not what, has crept upon my gladness--
Some vague, remote ancestral touch of sorrow, or of madness;
A fear that is not fear, a pain that has not pain's insistence;
A sense of longing, or of loss, in some foregone exsistence;
A subtle hurt that never pen has writ nor tongue has spoken--
Such hurt perchance as Nature feels wen a blossomed bough is broken.
| Scheme | AAAABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011111110111 110101011101110 011111011111010 0111011101111 010111011111110 1101110110101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 389 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 294 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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