Analysis of Remembrance
Emily Brontë 1818 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1848 (Haworth)
Cold in the earth—and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave!
Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee,
Severed at last by Time's all-severing wave?
Now, when alone, do my thoughts no longer hover
Over the mountains, on that northern shore,
Resting their wings where heath and fern leaves cover
Thy noble heart forever, ever more?
Cold in the earth—and fifteen wild Decembers,
From those brown hills, have melted into spring;
Faithful, indeed, is the spirit that remembers
After such years of change and suffering!
Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
While the world's tide is bearing me along;
Other desires and other hopes beset me,
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!
No later light has lightened up my heaven,
No second morn has ever shone for me;
All my life's bliss from thy dear life was given,
All my life's bliss is in the grave with thee.
But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy,
Then did I learn how existence could be cherished,
Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy.
Then did I check the tears of useless passion—
Weaned my young soul from yearning after thine;
Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten
Down to that tomb already more than mine.
And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,
How could I seek the empty world again?
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAG HAHA IJIJ HKHK LXLX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (88%) |
Metre | 100100111011 1101100101 11011101111 10111111001 110111111010 1001011101 10111101110 1101010101 100100111 1111110011 100110101010 1011110100 11110111011 1011110101 100100101011 1101110111 11011101110 1101110111 11111111110 1111100111 11011101110 010011100101 111110101110 1001010111 11110111010 1111110101 10011101110 1111010111 01011111110 1101011001 110111110 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,426 |
Words | 258 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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