Analysis of On The Death Of Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë 1816 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1855 (Haworth)
THERE 's little joy in life for me,
And little terror in the grave ;
I 've lived the parting hour to see
Of one I would have died to save.
Calmly to watch the failing breath,
Wishing each sigh might be the last ;
Longing to see the shade of death
O'er those belovèd features cast.
The cloud, the stillness that must part
The darling of my life from me ;
And then to thank God from my heart,
To thank Him well and fervently ;
Although I knew that we had lost
The hope and glory of our life ;
And now, benighted, tempest-tossed,
Must bear alone the weary strife.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EAEA FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111010111 01010001 1110101011 11111111 10110101 10111101 10110111 101101101 01010111 01011111 01111111 11110100 1111111 010101101 01010101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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