Analysis of No!
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
No sun--no moon!
No morn--no noon!
No dawn--no dusk--no proper time of day--
No sky--no earthly view--
No distance looking blue--
No road--no street--no "t'other side this way"--
No end to any Row--
No indications where the Crescents go--
No top to any steeple--
No recognitions of familiar people--
No courtesies for showing 'em--
No knowing 'em!
No traveling at all--no locomotion--
No inkling of the way--no notion--
"No go" by land or ocean--
No mail--no post--
No news from any foreign coast--
No Park, no Ring, no afternoon gentility--
No company--no nobility--
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member--
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds--
November!
Scheme | AABCCBDDEEFFGGGHHIIJKJLK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 1111 1111110111 111101 110101 11111110111 111101 101010101 1111010 11101010 11001101 1101 1100111010 110101110 1111110 1111 11110101 11111010100 110010100 11111101 11000101010 111111011 111101111 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 735 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 547 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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