Analysis of Fragment: A Gentle Story Of Two Lovers Young
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
A gentle story of two lovers young,
Who met in innocence and died in sorrow,
And of one selfish heart, whose rancour clung
Like curses on them; are ye slow to borrow
The lore of truth from such a tale?
Or in this world’s deserted vale,
Do ye not see a star of gladness
Pierce the shadows of its sadness,--
When ye are cold, that love is a light sent
From Heaven, which none shall quench, to cheer the innocent?
| Scheme | ABABCCDDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 0101011101 11010001010 011101111 1101111111 01111101 10110101 11110111 1011110 1111111011 1101111110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 412 |
| Words | 83 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 317 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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