Analysis of The Night - Wind
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
In summer's mellow midnight,
A cloudless moon shone through
Our open parlour window,
And rose-trees wet with dew.
I sat in silent musing;
The soft wind waved my hair;
It told me heaven was glorious,
And sleeping earth was fair.
I needed not its breathing
To bring such thoughts to me;
But still it whispered lowly,
'How dark the woods would be!
'The thick leaves in my murmur
Are rustling like a dream,
And all their myriad voices
Instinct with spirit seem.'
I said, 'Go, gentle singer,
Thy wooing voice is kind:
But do not think its music
Has power to reach my mind.
'Play with the scented flower,
The young tree's supply bough,
And leave my human feelings
In their own course to flow.'
The wanderer would not heed me:
Its kiss grew warmer still:
'Oh Come!' it sighed so sweetly;
'I'll win thee 'gainst thy will.
'Were we not friends from childhood?
Have I not loved thee long?
As long as thou, the solemn night,
Whose silence wakes my song.
'And when thy heart is resting
Beneath the church-aisle stone,
I shall have time for mourning,
And thou for being alone.'
Scheme | ABCB DEXE DFFF GHXH GIXI GXXC FJFJ XKAK DLDL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (78%) |
Metre | 010101 010111 10101010 011111 1101010 011111 111101100 010111 1101110 111111 1111010 110111 0110110 110101 01110010 101101 1111010 110111 1111110 1101111 1101010 011011 0111010 011111 01001111 111101 1111110 111111 011111 111111 11110101 110111 0111110 010111 1111110 0111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,045 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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