Analysis of Hope
Emily Jane Brontë 1818 (Thornton) – 1848 (Haworth)
Hope was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would tend,
Even as selfish-hearted men.
She was cruel in her fear;
Through the bars, one dreary day,
I looked out to see her there,
And she turned her face away!
Like a false guard, false watch keeping,
Still, in strife, she whispered peace;
She would sing while I was weeping;
If I listened, she would cease.
False she was, and unrelenting;
When my last joys strewed the ground,
Even Sorrow saw, repenting,
Those sad relics scattered round;
Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,
Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
Went, and ne'er returned again!
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE DFDF GXGB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 1110101 11010101 1011111 10110101 1110001 1011101 1111101 0110101 10111110 1011101 11111110 1110111 1110010 1111101 10101010 1110101 11101110 1111101 10101110 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 659 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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