The Lady To Her Guitar

Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)



For him who struck thy foreign string,
  I ween this heart has ceased to care;
Then why dost thou such feelings bring
  To my sad spirit—old Guitar?

It is as if the warm sunlight
  In some deep glen should lingering stay,
When clouds of storm, or shades of night,
  Have wrapt the parent orb away.

It is as if the glassy brook
  Should image still its willows fair,
Though years ago the woodman's stroke
  Laid low in dust their Dryad-hair.

Even so, Guitar, thy magic tone
  Hath moved the tear and waked the sigh;
Hath bid the ancient torrent moan,
  Although its very source is dry.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 08, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAX CDCD XBXB EFEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 582
Words 108
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Emily Jane Brontë

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. She also published one book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. more…

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