Analysis of Song From The Wandering Jew



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.


Scheme ABABCDCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1110010 1110101 1101110 1011111 11110 1010101 111010 110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 211
Words 40
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 163
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 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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