Analysis of Faint With Love, The Lady Of The South
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Faint with love, the Lady of the South
Lay in the paradise of Lebanon
Under a heaven of cedar boughs: the drouth
Of love was on her lips; the light was gone
Out of her eyes--
| Scheme | ABACD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010101 100101100 10010110101 1111010111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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