Analysis of [Long Neglect Has Worn Away]
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
Long neglect has worn away
Half the sweet enchanting smile;
Time has turned the bloom to gray;
Mold and damp the face defile.
But that lock of silky hair,
Still beneath the picture twined,
Tells what once those features were,
Paints their image on the mind.
Fair the hand that traced that line,
“Dearest, ever deem me true”;
Swiftly flew the fingers fine
When the pen that motto drew.
| Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1011101 1010101 1110111 101011 1111101 1010101 1111100 1110101 1011111 1010111 1010101 1011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 385 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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