Analysis of 'Tis Moonlight, Summer Moonlight

Emily Bronte 1818 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1848 (Haworth)



'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight,
All soft and still and fair;
The solemn hour of midnight
Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere,

But most where trees are sending
Their breezy boughs on high,
Or stooping low are lending
A shelter from the sky.

And there in those wild bowers
A lovely form is laid;
Green grass and dew-steeped flowers
Wave gently round her head.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EXEX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 11101 110101 0101011 11110 1111110 110111 1101110 010101 0101110 010111 1101110 110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 353
Words 63
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Emily Bronte

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. more…

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