Analysis of Moonlight, summer moonlight
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
The solemn hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,
But most where trees are sending
Their breezy boughs on high,
Or stooping low are lending
A shelter from the sky.
And there in those wild bowers
A lovely form is laid;
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
Wave gently round her head.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11101 110101 0101011 11110 1111110 110111 1101110 010101 0101110 010111 1101110 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 364 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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