Analysis of Song
Anne Brontë 1820 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1849 (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
We know where deepest lies the snow,
And where the frost-winds keenest blow,
O'er every mountain's brow,
We long have known and learnt to bear
The wandering outlaw's toil and care,
But where we late were hunted, there
Our foes are hunted now.
We have their princely homes, and they
To our wild haunts are chased away,
Dark woods, and desert caves.
And we can range from hill to hill,
And chase our vanquished victors still;
Small respite will they find until
They slumber in their graves.
But I would rather be the hare,
That crouching in its sheltered lair
Must start at every sound;
That forced from cornfields waving wide
Is driven to seek the bare hillside,
Or in the tangled copse to hide,
Than be the hunter's hound.
Scheme | AABCCCBDDEFFFE CCGHHHG |
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Poetic Form | Burns stanza (43%) |
Metre | 11110101 01011101 10100101 11110111 01001101 11110101 1011101 11110101 110111101 110101 01111111 011010101 11011101 110011 11110101 11001101 1111001 11111101 11011011 10010111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 783 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 285 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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