Analysis of The Lady To Her Guitar
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
For him who struck thy foreign string,
I ween this heart has ceased to care;
Then why dost thou such feelings bring
To my sad spirit—old Guitar?
It is as if the warm sunlight
In some deep glen should lingering stay,
When clouds of storm, or shades of night,
Have wrapt the parent orb away.
It is as if the glassy brook
Should image still its willows fair,
Though years ago the woodman's stroke
Laid low in dust their Dryad-hair.
Even so, Guitar, thy magic tone
Hath moved the tear and waked the sigh;
Hath bid the ancient torrent moan,
Although its very source is dry.
Scheme | ABAX CDCD XBXB EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11111101 11111111 11111101 11110101 1111011 011111001 11111111 11010101 11110101 1101111 1101011 1101111 101011101 11010101 11010101 1110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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