Analysis of Come Hither, Child
Emily Bronte 1818 (Thornton, West Yorkshire) – 1848 (Haworth)
Come hither, child, who gifted thee
With power to touch that string so well?
How darest thou rouse up thoughts in me,
Thoughts that I would, but cannot quell?
Nay, chide not, lady; long ago
I heard those notes in Ula's hall,
And had I known they'd waken woe
I'd weep their music to recall.
But thus it was: one festal night
When I was hardly six years old
I stole away from crowds and light
And sought a chamber dark and cold.
I had no one to love me there,
I knew no comrade and no friend;
And so I went to sorrow where
Heaven, only heaven saw me bend.
Loud blew the wind; 'twas sad to stay
From all that splendour barred away.
I imaged in the lonely room
A thousand forms of fearful gloom.
And with my wet eyes raised on high
I prayed to God that I might die.
Suddenly in that silence drear
A sound of music reached my ear,
And then a note, I hear it yet,
So full of soul, so deeply sweet,
I thought that Gabriel's self had come
To take me to thy father's home.
Three times it rose, that seraph strain,
Then died, nor breathed again;
But still the words and still the tone
Dwell round my heart when all alone.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IIJJ KKGX XXXX XXLL |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 11011101 110111111 11111101 11111101 11110101 1111011 01111101 1111011 1111111 11110111 11011101 01010101 11111111 1111011 01111101 101010111 11011111 1111101 1100101 01011101 01111111 11111111 10001101 01110111 01011111 11111101 111100111 11111101 1111111 111101 11010101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,103 |
Words | 228 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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