Analysis of The Arbour
Anne Brontë 1820 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1849 (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
I'll rest me in this sheltered bower,
And look upon the clear blue sky
That smiles upon me through the trees,
Which stand so thickly clustering by;
And view their green and glossy leaves,
All glistening in the sunshine fair;
And list the rustling of their boughs,
So softly whispering through the air.
And while my ear drinks in the sound,
My winged soul shall fly away;
Reviewing long departed years
As one mild, beaming, autumn day;
And soaring on to future scenes,
Like hills and woods, and valleys green,
All basking in the summer's sun,
But distant still, and dimly seen.
Oh, list! 'tis summer's very breath
That gently shakes the rustling trees -
But look! the snow is on the ground -
How can I think of scenes like these?
'Tis but the frost that clears the air,
And gives the sky that lovely blue;
They're smiling in a winter's sun,
Those evergreens of sombre hue.
And winter's chill is on my heart -
How can I dream of future bliss?
How can my spirit soar away,
Confined by such a chain as this?
Scheme | XABAXCXC DEXE XFGF XBDB CHGH XIEI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011010 01010111 11011101 111101001 01110101 11000011 01010111 110100101 01111001 1111101 01010101 11110101 01011101 11010101 11000101 11010101 11110101 11010101 11011101 11111111 11011101 01011101 11000101 110111 01011111 11111101 11110101 01110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 996 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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