Analysis of Fragment: Thoughts Come And Go In Solitude
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!
| Scheme | ABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 110101010 0111011101 1100101101 1100101111 101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 222 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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