Analysis of Spellbound

Emily Brontë 1818 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1848 (Haworth)



The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending,
And yet I cannot go.

Clouds beyond clouds above me,
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me;
I will not, cannot go.


Scheme ABAB CBCB ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 01110011 011101 10101111 0110101 0101110 111111 00111010 011101 1011011 101101 1101111 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 339
Words 65
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by halel on July 15, 2020

Modified on April 13, 2023

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Emily Brontë

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