Analysis of Fragment: Home

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)



Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys,
The least of which wronged Memory ever makes
Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11111100101 01111100101 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 144
Words 25
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. more…

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