This is an analysis of How Still, How Happy! by Emily Jane Brontë.
How still, how happy! Those are words
That once would scarce agree together;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb aaaa cdcd eaea XeXe fdfd eded cgcg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110111 111101010 11010001 0101001010 11111101 11010101 10010111 10011111 11110111 11010101 11011101 110101001 11110101 1101101001 11111101 110110101 11100101 11011101 01011101 11110101 001111001 01111101 11110101 11110101 01011100 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11101101 11111101 01110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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