This is an analysis of I Am The Only Being Whose Doom by Emily Jane Brontë.

I am the only being whose doom
No tongue would ask no eye would mourn…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXef gfgX hghgXefef
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 110101011 11111111 11010101 01011111 01010101 010011101 11010010 11111011 11011101 11011011 11110101 11110111 11000101 01010111 11111101 11010110 11010101 11011101 110100111 01010101 11010111 11010101 11010111 11010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, as, to

Anaphora

as, there