Analysis of From The Original Draft Of The Poem To William Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
The world is now our dwelling-place;
Where'er the earth one fading trace
Of what was great and free does keep,
That is our home!...
Mild thoughts of man's ungentle race
Shall our contented exile reap;
For who that in some happy place
His own free thoughts can freely chase
By woods and waves can clothe his face
In cynic smiles? Child! we shall weep.
II.
This lament,
The memory of thy grievous wrong
Will fade...
But genius is omnipotent
To hallow...
| Scheme | ABBCXBCBBBC AXXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 011110101 10011101 11110111 11101 111111 11001011 11101101 11111101 11011111 01011111 1 101 010011101 11 11010100 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 447 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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