Analysis of I Faint, I Perish With My Love!
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I faint, I perish with my love! I grow
Frail as a cloud whose [splendours] pale
Under the evening's ever-changing glow:
I die like mist upon the gale,
And like a wave under the calm I fail
| Scheme | ABABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 1111011111 1101111 1001010101 11110101 0101100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 192 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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