Analysis of The North Wind
Anne Brontë 1820 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1849 (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
That wind is from the North, I know it well;
No other breeze could have so wild a swell.
Now deep and loud it thunders round my cell,
The faintly dies,
And softly sighs,
And moans and murmurs mournfully.
I know its language; thus is speaks to me --
'I have passed over thy own mountains dear,
Thy northern mountains -- and they still are free,
Still lonely, wild, majestic, bleak and drear,
And stern and lovely, as they used to be
When thou, a young enthusiast,
As wild and free as they,
O'er rocks and glens and snowy heights
Didst often love to stray.
I've blown the wild untrodden snows
In whirling eddies from their brows,
And I have howled in caverns wild
Where thou, a joyous mountain child,
Didst dearly love to be.
The sweet world is not changed, but thou
Art pining in a dungeon now,
Where thou must ever be;
No voice but mine can reach thine ear,
And Heaven has kindly sent me here,
To mourn and sigh with thee,
And tell thee of the cherished land
Of thy nativity.'
Blow on, wild wind, thy solemn voice,
However sad and drear,
Is nothing to the gloomy silence
I have had to bear.
Hot tears are streaming from my eyes,
But these are better far
Than that dull gnawing tearless [time]
The stupor of despair.
Confined and hopeless as I am,
O speak of liberty,
O tell me of my mountain home,
And I will welcome thee.
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1111011111 1101111101 1101110111 0101 0101 010101 1111011111 1111011101 1101001111 1101010101 0101011111 1101010 110111 101010101 110111 110111 01010111 01110101 11010101 110111 01111111 11000101 111101 11111111 010110111 110111 01110101 110100 11111101 10101 110101010 11111 11110111 111101 1111011 010101 01010111 111100 11111101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,344 |
Words | 256 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 13, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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