Analysis of The Birth Place of Pleasure
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
At the creation of the Earth
Pleasure, that divinest birth,
From the soil of Heaven did rise,
Wrapped in sweet wild melodies--
Like an exhalation wreathing
To the sound of air low-breathing
Through Aeolian pines, which make
A shade and shelter to the lake
Whence it rises soft and slow;
Her life-breathing [limbs] did flow
In the harmony divine
Of an ever-lengthening line
Which enwrapped her perfect form
With a beauty clear and warm.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010101 10111 10111011 1011100 110101 10111110 11111 01010101 1110101 0110111 0010001 11101001 110011 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 432 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 351 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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