This is an analysis of Spellbound by Emily Jane Brontë.

The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcbXabab
  • Stanza lengths: 4,9,
  • Metre: 01010011 011101 10101111 1110101 0101110 111101 10101010 111101 1011011 101101 1101111 101101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Anaphora

the, and