Analysis of Encouragement
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
I do not weep; I would not weep;
Our mother needs no tears:
Dry thine eyes, too; 'tis vain to keep
This causeless grief for years.
What though her brow be changed and cold,
Her sweet eyes closed for ever?
What though the stone-the darksome mould
Our mortal bodies sever?
What though her hand smooth ne'er again
Those silken locks of thine?
Nor, through long hours of future pain,
Her kind face o'er thee shine?
Remember still, she is not dead;
She sees us, sister, now;
Laid, where her angel spirit fled,
'Mid heath and frozen snow.
And from that world of heavenly light
Will she not always bend
To guide us in our lifetime's night,
And guard us to the end?
Thou knowest she will; and thou mayst mourn
That we are left below:
But not that she can ne'er return
To share our earthly woe.
Scheme | AXAX BCBC XDXD EXEF GHGH XFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111111 1010111 11111111 11111 11011101 0111110 1101011 10101010 11011101 110111 111101101 0111011 01011111 111101 11010101 110101 011111001 11111 11101011 011101 11110111 111101 11111101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 794 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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