Analysis of Evening Solace
Charlotte Brontë 1816 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1855 (Haworth)
THE human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed;
The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,
Whose charms were broken if revealed.
And days may pass in gay confusion,
And nights in rosy riot fly,
While, lost in Fame's or Wealth's illusion,
The memory of the Past may die.
But, there are hours of lonely musing,
Such as in evening silence come,
When, soft as birds their pinions closing,
The heart's best feelings gather home.
Then in our souls there seems to languish
A tender grief that is not woe;
And thoughts that once wrung groans of anguish,
Now cause but some mild tears to flow.
And feelings, once as strong as passions,
Float softly backa faded dream;
Our own sharp griefs and wild sensations,
The tale of others' sufferings seem.
Oh ! when the heart is freshly bleeding,
How longs it for that time to be,
When, through the mist of years receding,
Its woes but live in reverie !
And it can dwell on moonlight glimmer,
On evening shade and loneliness;
And, while the sky grows dim and dimmer,
Feel no untold and strange distress
Only a deeper impulse given
By lonely hour and darkened room,
To solemn thoughts that soar to heaven,
Seeking a life and world to come.
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Metre | 010111010 01010101 010101010 11010101 011101010 01010101 110111010 010010111 1111011010 11010101 11111110 01110101 1010111110 01011111 011111110 11111111 010111110 11010101 1011101010 011101001 110111010 11111111 110111010 11110100 01111110 11010100 010111010 11010101 100101010 110100101 110111110 10010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,216 |
Words | 217 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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