Analysis of Stanzas
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me,
There's nothing lovely here;
And doubly will the dark world grieve me,
While thy heart suffers there.
I'll not weep, because the summer's glory
Must always end in gloom;
And, follow out the happiest story -
It closes with a tomb!
And I am weary of the anguish
Increasing winters bear;
Weary to watch the spirit languish
Through years of dead despair.
So, if a tear, when thou art dying,
Should haply fall from me,
It is but that my soul is sighing,
To go and rest with thee.
Scheme | AXAB ACAC DBDB EAEA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11111110111 110101 010101111 111101 1110101010 11101 0101010010 110101 011101010 010101 101101010 111101 110111110 11111 111111110 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
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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