Analysis of Song. Translated From The German
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Ah! grasp the dire dagger and couch the fell spear,
If vengeance and death to thy bosom be dear,
The dastard shall perish, death’s torment shall prove,
For fate and revenge are decreed from above.
Ah! where is the hero, whose nerves strung by youth,
Will defend the firm cause of justice and truth;
With insatiate desire whose bosom shall swell,
To give up the oppressor to judgement and Hell--
For him shall the fair one twine chaplets of bays,
To him shall each warrior give merited praise,
And triumphant returned from the clangour of arms,
He shall find his reward in his loved maiden's charms.
In ecstatic confusion the warrior shall sip,
The kisses that glow on his love's dewy lip,
And mutual, eternal, embraces shall prove,
The rewards of the brave are the transports of love.
Scheme | AABC DDEE FFGG HHBC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11011001011 11001111011 011101111 11001101101 11101011111 10101111001 1101011011 111001011001 1110111111 111110011001 00100110111 11110101111 0010010010011 01011111101 010001001011 001101100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 796 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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