This is an analysis of Fragment by Anne Brontë.

Yes I will take a cheerful tone
And feign to share their heartless glee,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11010101 11011101 11110101 11011100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4