Analysis of Warning and Reply
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
In the earth—the earth—thou shalt be laid,
A grey stone standing over thee;
Black mould beneath thee spread,
And black mould to cover thee.
'Well—there is rest there,
So fast come thy prophecy;
The time when my sunny hair
Shall with grass roots entwined be.'
But cold—cold is that resting-place,
Shut out from joy and liberty,
And all who loved thy living face
Will shrink from it shudderingly,
'Not so. Here the world is chill,
And sworn friends fall from me:
But there—they will own me still,
And prize my memory.'
Farewell, then, all that love,
All that deep sympathy:
Sleep on: Heaven laughs above,
Earth never misses thee.
Turf-sod and tombstone drear
Part human company;
One heart breaks only—here,
But that heart was worthy thee!
Scheme | XAXA BABA CACD DADA EAEA BAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 001011111 01110101 110111 0111101 11111 1111100 0111101 1111011 11111101 11110100 01111101 11111 1110111 011111 1111111 011100 11111 111100 1110101 110101 11011 110100 111101 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 757 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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