Analysis of Remembrance
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
Swifter far than summer's flight--
Swifter far than youth’s delight--
Swifter far than happy night,
Art thou come and gone--
As the earth when leaves are dead,
As the night when sleep is sped,
As the heart when joy is fled,
I am left lone, alone.
II.
The swallow summer comes again--
The owlet night resumes her reign--
But the wild-swan youth is fain
To fly with thee, false as thou.--
My heart each day desires the morrow;
Sleep itself is turned to sorrow;
Vainly would my winter borrow
Sunny leaves from any bough.
III.
Lilies for a bridal bed--
Roses for a matron’s head--
Violets for a maiden dead--
Pansies let MY flowers be:
On the living grave I bear
Scatter them without a tear--
Let no friend, however dear,
Waste one hope, one fear for me.
Scheme | ABBBXCCCX AXDDEFFFE ACCCGHHXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1011101 1011101 1011101 11101 1011111 1011111 1011111 111101 1 01010101 0110101 1011111 1111111 1111010010 10111110 1011101 1011101 1 1010101 1010101 10010101 1011101 1010111 1010101 111101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 741 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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