Analysis of She's Up and Gone, the Graceless Girl
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
She's up and gone, the graceless girl,
And robb'd my failing years!
My blood before was thin and cold
But now 'tis turn'd to tears;—
My shadow falls upon my grave,
So near the brink I stand,
She might have stay'd a little yet,
And led me by the hand!
Aye, call her on the barren moor,
And call her on the hill:
'Tis nothing but the heron's cry,
And plover's answer shrill;
My child is flown on wilder wings
Than they have ever spread,
And I may even walk a waste
That widen'd when she fled.
Full many a thankless child has been,
But never one like mine;
Her meat was served on plates of gold,
Her drink was rosy wine;
But now she'll share the robin's food,
And sup the common rill,
Before her feet will turn again
To meet her father's will!
Scheme | ABCDEFGFHIJIKLMLNOCOPIQI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 011101 11011101 111111 1110111 110111 11110101 011101 11010101 010101 11010101 01101 11111101 111101 01110101 110111 110010111 110111 01111111 011101 11110101 010101 01011101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 750 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 561 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 145 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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