Analysis of Yes Thou Art Gone

Anne Brontë 1820 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1849 (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)



Yes, thou art gone! and never more
Thy sunny smile shall gladden me;
But I may pass the old church door,
And pace the floor that covers thee,
May stand upon the cold, damp stone,
And think that, frozen, lies below
The lightest heart that I have known,
The kindest I shall ever know.

Yet, though I cannot see thee more,
'Tis still a comfort to have seen;
And though thy transient life is o'er,
'Tis sweet to think that thou hast been;

To think a soul so near divine,
Within a form, so angel fair,
United to a heart like thine,
Has gladdened once our humble sphere.


Scheme ABABCDCD AXXX EXEX
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 11011101 11110111 01011101 11010111 01110101 01011111 01011101 11110111 11010111 011101110 11111111 11011101 01011101 01010111 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 564
Words 111
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 144
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. more…

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