Analysis of From The Greek Of Moschus : Pan Loved His Neighbour Echo
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Pan loved his neighbour Echo--but that child
Of Earth and Air pined for the Satyr leaping;
The Satyr loved with wasting madness wild
The bright nymph Lyda,--and so three went weeping.
As Pan loved Echo, Echo loved the Satyr,
The Satyr, Lyda; and so love consumed them.--
And thus to each--which was a woful matter--
To bear what they inflicted Justice doomed them;
For, inasmuch as each might hate the lover,
Each, loving, so was hated.--Ye that love not
Be warned-in thought turn this example over,
That when ye love, the like return ye prove not.
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Metre | 111110111 1101110110 011110101 01110011110 1111010101 0110011011 0111110110 11110101011 10101111010 11011101111 11011101010 11110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 423 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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