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Song From The Wandering Jew

Percy Bysshe Shelley

See yon opening flower
Spreads its fragrance to the blast;
It fades within an hour,
Its decay is pale--is fast.
Paler is yon maiden;
Faster is her heart's decay;
Deep with sorrow laden,
She sinks in death away.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Scheme ABABCDCD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 211
Words 40
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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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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