Analysis of Music And Sweet Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
How sweet it is to sit and read the tales
Of mighty poets and to hear the while
Sweet music, which when the attention fails
Fills the dim pause--
| Scheme | ABAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110101 1101001101 1101100101 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 150 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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