Analysis of A Fragment: To Music.
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Silver key of the fountain of tears,
Where the spirit drinks till the brain is wild;
Softest grave of a thousand fears,
Where their mother, Care, like a drowsy child,
Is laid asleep in flowers.
Scheme | ABCBD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101101011 1010110111 10110101 1110110101 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 189 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on May 02, 2023
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