Analysis of Epigram I: To Stella
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
From the Greek of Plato.
Thou wert the morning star among the living,
Ere thy fair light had fled;--
Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving
New splendour to the dead.
| Scheme | X ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110 11010101010 111111 1101111110 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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