Analysis of A Reminiscence
Anne Brontë 1820 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1849 (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
YES, thou art gone ! and never more
Thy sunny smile shall gladden me ;
But I may pass the old church door,
And pace the floor that covers thee.
May stand upon the cold, damp stone,
And think that, frozen, lies below
The lightest heart that I have known,
The kindest I shall ever know.
Yet, though I cannot see thee more,
'Tis still a comfort to have seen ;
And though thy transient life is o'er,
'Tis sweet to think that thou hast been ;
To think a soul so near divine,
Within a form so angel fair,
United to a heart like thine,
Has gladdened once our humble sphere.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD AXXX EXEX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11110101 11011101 11110111 01011101 11010111 01110101 01011111 01011101 11110111 11010111 011101110 11111111 11011101 01011101 01010111 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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