This is an analysis of Sympathy by Emily Jane Brontë.

There should be no despair for you
While nightly stars are burning,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ababefef
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11010111 1101110 11010101 1111010 11010111 1111010 110101000 0111010 11110101 1111110 11010101 1101110 11011011 1110010 11010101 1101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Anaphora

while