This is an analysis of Hope by Emily Jane Brontë.

Hope was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef eaeaXbbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 1110101 11010101 1011111 10110101 1110001 1011101 1110101 1110101 10111110 1011101 11111110 0110111 11111010 11111001 10101010 1110101 11101110 1011101 10111010 1110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

her, she