This is an analysis of Past, Present, Future by Emily Jane Brontë.
Tell me, tell me, smiling child,
What the past is like to thee ?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaX cbcX ddbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111101 1010101 11010111 00111100 111000110 1111001 10111100010 011110 110010101 11010101 0101001001 10001000
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
