This is an analysis of Last Lines by Anne Brontë.
Jan 7th
A dreadful darkness closes in…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd ecec fdfg hdhd cfcf cdcd aaaa ijij cgXd daka khkh alal cccc mdmd clcl X
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Metre: 11 01010100 110101 11110111 010101 11010101 111101 11110001 010111 10111111 111101 11110111 110101 11011111 010101 11010101 010100 11010111 1100111 010101001 010111 11110101 111101 11101101 110101 11110101 110101 11110101 110101 01100101 111111 11111101 110111 11011101 110111 11010101 110101 110100101 11010100 11010101 01111111 1110111 1010101 111101011 11111101 11010101 11011100 01111101 11110101 11011001 010101001 01010101 11110001 11111011 11001101 10110001 110101 01111101 110110 11110101 110111 11010101 111111 111001101 111111 10111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 66
Repeated words/phrases
me, to, i, these, and, more
Anaphora
and, i, these, that, more
