Analysis of Thomas Hood
William Watson 1858 (Burley in Wharfedale) – 1935 (Rottingdean)
NO courtier this, and naught to courts he owed,
Fawned not on thrones, hymned not the great and callous,
Yet, in one strain, that few remember, showed
He had the password of King Oberon's palace.
And seeing a London seamstress's gray fate,
He of a human heartstring made a thread,
And stitched him such a royal robe of state
That Eastern Kings are poorlier habited.
He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes;
He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free.
He saw her fall'n; and wrote 'The Bridge of Sighs' -
And on it crossed to immortality.
Scheme | ABAB CXCA DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11001011111 11111101010 1011110101 110111110 010010111 110101101 0111010111 1101111 1111011101 1101011101 11011010111 011110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 540 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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