This is an analysis of Lines Written From Home by Anne Brontë.

Though bleak these woods, and damp the ground
With fallen leaves so thickly strown,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcdcd cece fefe eded bebe dbdb egegXb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Metre: 11111101 01011101 11011101 01110101 10010111 11100101 100101101 011111001 111110011 11010111 11110101 010101001 11010111 11011101 11010011 11001101 11011111 11010011 11101101 01111111 11111101 01010101 11111101 01011101 01110111 11011101 01011101 01011101 11111110 11110101 11010101 11110101 10
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 33

Repeated words/phrases

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