Analysis of One Word Is Too Often Profaned
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it;
One feeling too falsely disdained
For thee to disdain it;
One hope is too like despair
For prudence to smother;
And pity from thee more dear
Than that from another.
I can give not what men call love;
But wilt thou accept not
The worship the heart lifts above
And the heavens reject not, --
The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 111011 11011001 111011 1111101 110110 0101111 111010 11111111 111011 01001101 0010011 0010101101 1011010 001011001 10111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 464 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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