“No Coward Soul is Mine” Introduction

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“No Coward Soul is Mine” Summary

“No Coward Soul is Mine” Themes

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  The Power of Faith

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Line-by-Line Explanation & Analysis of “No Coward Soul is Mine”

• Lines 1-4

  No coward soul is mine
  No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere
  I see Heaven's glories shine
  And Faith shines equal arming me from Fear

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 5-8

  O God within my breast
  Almighty ever-present Deity
  Life, that in me hast rest,
  As I Undying Life, have power in Thee

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 9-12

  Vain are the thousand creeds
  That move men's hearts, unutterably vain,
  Worthless as withered weeds
  Or idlest froth amid the boundless main

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 13-16

  To waken doubt in one
  Holding so fast by thy infinity,
  So surely anchored on
  The steadfast rock of Immortality.

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 17-20

  With wide-embracing love
  Thy spirit animates eternal years
  Pervades and broods above,
  Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates and rears

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 21-24

  Though earth and moon were gone
  And suns and universes ceased to be
  And Thou wert left alone
  Every Existence would exist in thee

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 25-28

  There is not room for Death
  Nor atom that his might could render void
  Since thou art Being and Breath
  And what thou art may never be destroyed.

  

  

  

  

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“No Coward Soul is Mine” Poetic Devices & Figurative Language

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• Simile

  

  

  

  

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• Alliteration

  

  

  

  

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“No Coward Soul is Mine” Vocabulary

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• Deity
• Hast
• Thee
• Thee
• Vain
• Creeds
• Unutterably
• Idlest
• Froth
• Boundless main
• Thy
• Animates
• Pervades
• Broods
• Thou
• Wert
• Render
• Void
• Art

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Form, Meter, & Rhyme Scheme of “No Coward Soul is Mine”

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More “No Coward Soul is Mine” Resources

• External Resources

  • Emily Brontë's Life and Work — Learn more about the poet via the Poetry Foundation.

  • The Poem Out Loud — Listen to the poem read aloud and accompanied by music.

  • Handwritten Poems — Browse the British Library's archives of Brontë's poetry notebook. 

  • Victorian Poetry — A look at the era in which Brontë wrote.

  • "A fierce, elemental lyric" — Read a discussion of "No Coward Soul is Mine" written for The Guardian's Poem of the Week series, which deems the poet "a very un-Victorian Victorian."

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