This is an analysis of the poem Spellbound that begins with:
The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcbXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010011 011101 10101111 1110101 0101110 111101 10101010 111101 1011011 101101 1101111 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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More information about poems by Emily Jane Brontë
- Analysis of The Night Is Darkening Around Me
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- Analysis of Death, That Struck When I Was Most Confiding
