Analysis of Song. Hope
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
And said I that all hope was fled,
That sorrow and despair were mine,
That each enthusiast wish was dead,
Had sank beneath pale Misery’s shrine.--
Seest thou the sunbeam's yellow glow,
That robes with liquid streams of light;
Yon distant Mountain's craggy brow.
And shows the rocks so fair,--so bright--
Tis thus sweet expectation’s ray,
In softer view shows distant hours,
And portrays each succeeding day,
As dressed in fairer, brighter flowers,--
The vermeil tinted flowers that blossom;
Are frozen but to bud anew,
Then sweet deceiver calm my bosom,
Although thy visions be not true,--
Yet true they are,—and I’ll believe,
Thy whisperings soft of love and peace,
God never made thee to deceive,
'Tis sin that bade thy empire cease.
Yet though despair my life should gloom,
Though horror should around me close,
With those I love, beyond the tomb,
Hope shows a balm for all my woes.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FGFG HIHI JXJX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (83%) |
Metre | 01111111 11000101 11010111 1101111 1101101 11110111 11010101 01011111 1110101 010111010 00110101 110101010 011010110 11011101 1111110 1110111 11110101 1111101 11011101 111111001 11011111 11010111 11110101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 895 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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