Analysis of Lines To A Reviewer
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Alas, good friend, what profit can you see
In hating such a hateless thing as me?
There is no sport in hate where all the rage
Is on one side: in vain would you assuage
Your frowns upon an unresisting smile,
In which not even contempt lurks to beguile
Your heart, by some faint sympathy of hate.
Oh, conquer what you cannot satiate!
For to your passion I am far more coy
Than ever yet was coldest maid or boy
In winter noon. Of your antipathy
If I am the Narcissus, you are free
To pine into a sound with hating me.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111110111 010101111 1111011101 1111011101 1101111 01110011101 1111110011 11011101 1111011111 1101110111 0101110100 1110010111 1101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 511 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 402 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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