Analysis of Epigram II: Kissing Helena
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
From the Greek of Plato.
Kissing Helena, together
With my kiss, my soul beside it
Came to my lips, and there I kept it,--
For the poor thing had wandered thither,
To follow where the kiss should guide it,
Oh, cruel I, to intercept it!
| Scheme | X ABBABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110 10100010 11111011 111101111 10111101 110101111 11011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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