Analysis of Home
Anne Brontë 1820 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1849 (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
How brightly glistening in the sun
The woodland ivy plays!
While yonder beeches from their barks
Reflect his silver rays.
That sun surveys a lovely scene
From softly smiling skies;
And wildly through unnumbered trees
The wind of winter sighs:
Now loud, it thunders o'er my head,
And now in distance dies.
But give me back my barren hills
Where colder breezes rise;
Where scarce the scattered, stunted trees
Can yield an answering swell,
But where a wilderness of heath
Returns the sound as well.
For yonder garden, fair and wide,
With groves of evergreen,
Long winding walks, and borders trim,
And velvet lawns between;
Restore to me that little spot,
With grey walls compassed round,
Where knotted grass neglected lies,
And weeds usurp the ground.
Though all around this mansion high
Invites the foot to roam,
And though its halls are fair within --
Oh, give me back my HOME!
Scheme | XAXABCDC XCXC DEXE XBXB XFCF XGXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100001 01101 1101111 011101 11010101 110101 010111 011101 111101011 010101 11111101 110101 11010101 1111001 11010011 010111 11010101 11110 11010101 010101 01111101 11111 11010101 01101 11011101 010111 01111101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 962 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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