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 |
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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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