Analysis of The Captive Dove
Anne Brontë 1820 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1849 (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
Poor restless dove, I pity thee;
And when I hear thy plaintive moan,
I mourn for thy captivity,
And in thy woes forget mine own.
To see thee stand prepared to fly,
And flap those useless wings of thine,
And gaze into the distant sky,
Would melt a harder heart than mine.
In vain in vain! Thou canst not rise:
Thy prison roof confines thee there;
Its slender wires delude thine eyes,
And quench thy longings with despair.
Oh, thou wert made to wander free
In sunny mead and shady grove,
And, far beyond the rolling sea,
In distant climes, at will to rove!
Yet, hadst thou but one gentle mate
Thy little drooping heart to cheer,
And share with thee thy captive state,
Thou couldst be happy even there.
Yes, even there, if, listening by,
One faithful dear companion stood,
While gazing on her full bright eye,
Thou mightst forget thy native wood.
But thou, poor solitary dove,
Must make, unheard, thy joyless moan;
The heart, that Nature formed to love,
Must pine, neglected, and alone.
Scheme | ABABCDCD EFEF AGAG HXHF CICI JBJB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 01111101 11110100 00110111 11110111 01110111 01010101 11010111 01011111 1101111 110100111 01110101 11111101 01010101 01010101 01011111 11111101 11010111 01111101 11110101 110111001 11010101 11010111 11011101 1111001 1101111 01110111 11010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 973 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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