Analysis of At Castle Wood
Emily Bronte 1818 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1848 (Haworth)
The day is done, the winter sun
Is setting in its sullen sky;
And drear the course that has been run,
And dim the hearts that slowly die.
No star will light my coming night;
No morn of hope for me will shine;
I mourn not heaven would blast my sight,
And I ne'er longed for joys divine.
Through life's hard task I did not ask
Celestial aid, celestial cheer;
I saw my fate without its mask,
And met it too without a tear.
The grief that pressed my aching breast
Was heavier far than earth can be;
And who would dread eternal rest
When labour's hour was agony?
Dark falls the fear of this despair
On spirits born of happiness;
But I was bred the mate of care,
The foster-child of sore distress.
No sighs for me, no sympathy,
No wish to keep my soul below;
The heart is dead in infancy,
Unwept-for let the body go.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEF GHGH FXFX HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 01110101 11001101 01011111 01011101 11111101 11111111 111101111 01111101 11111111 01010101 11110111 01110101 01111101 110011111 01110101 11101100 11011101 11011100 11110111 01011101 11111100 11111101 01110100 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 804 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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