Analysis of Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day

Anne Brontë 1820 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1849 (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)



My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze;
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring,
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas.
The long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing,
The bare trees are tossing their branches on high;
The dead leaves, beneath them, are merrily dancing,
The white clouds are scudding across the blue sky.

I wish I could see how the ocean is lashing
The foam of its billows to whirlwinds of spray;
I wish I could see how its proud waves are dashing,
And hear the wild roar of their thunder today!


Scheme ABABACAC ADAD
Poetic Form
Metre 111010110110 01001101101 1010011011110 01011001001 01101001110 01111011011 011011110010 0111101011 111111010110 0111101111 111111111110 01011111001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 582
Words 112
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 229
Words per stanza (avg) 55
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. more…

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