Analysis of Another Fragment to Music

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



No, Music, thou art not the 'food of Love.'
Unless Love feeds upon its own sweet self,
Till it becomes all Music murmurs of.


Scheme ABA
Poetic Form Terza rima 
Tercet 
Metre 1101110111 0111011111 1101110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 130
Words 27
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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