This is an analysis of The Wife's Will by Charlotte Brontë.
SIT stilla worda breath may break
(As light airs stir a sleeping lake)…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff ggbbbb ddhhcc iifXee hhccii cXbbee ffggjj cXggcXXiieecc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Metre: 11010111 11110101 01011111 01010101 11111100 11110101 11011111 11111111 01110101 111100001 111101001 0101101 11111101 1011000001 11111011 01010101 11111101 11010001 100110111 11011101 10111101 010011101 11110101 1111011 110011101 11110111 111111101 110101011 11110111 11110101 1100111101 11011101 11011101 11011101 11001101 11010111 1101100111 1101111111 11011111 11110101 11111111 101100101 10111011 11010101 11000101 10110101 11001101 10111001 11001111 100000111 11010111 01100111 10111100 10101100 01011101 111110101 110110001 01110111 11011101 011100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 10
- Lines: 60
Repeated words/phrases
me, so, i, ', and, thy
Anaphora
the, '
