Analysis of On A Fete At Carlton House: Fragment

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



By the mossy brink,
With me the Prince shall sit and think;
Shall muse in visioned Regency,
Rapt in bright dreams of dawning Royalty.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1011 11011101 1101100 1011110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 138
Words 26
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
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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