Analysis of Last Lines
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
NO coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven's glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
O God within my breast,
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life--that in me has rest,
As I--undying Life--have power in Thee!
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as wither'd weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,
To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by Thine infinity;
So surely anchor'd on
The steadfast rock of immortality.
With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.
Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes cease to be,
And Thou were left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.
There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou--Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF XDXD GHGH XDXD IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110111 110011101 1110101 0111010111 110111 0101010100 110111 11010111001 110101 111111 101101 111010101 110101 1011110100 110101 01110100 110101 1101000101 010101 1001010101 110101 010100111 010101 10001010101 111111 1101111101 1111001 0111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 973 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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