Analysis of Speak of the North! A Lonely Moor
Charlotte Brontë 1816 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1855 (Haworth)
Speak of the North! A lonely moor
Silent and dark and tractless swells,
The waves of some wild streamlet pour
Hurriedly through its ferny dells.
Profoundly still the twilight air,
Lifeless the landscape; so we deem
Till like a phantom gliding near
A stag bends down to drink the stream.
And far away a mountain zone,
A cold, white waste of snow-drifts lies,
And one star, large and soft and lone,
Silently lights the unclouded skies.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010101 1001011 0111111 1001111 0101011 1001111 11010101 01111101 01010101 01111111 01110101 1001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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