Analysis of To Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to know
That things depart which never may return:
Childhood and youth, friendship and love's first glow,
Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn.
These common woes I feel. One loss is mine
Which thou too feel'st, yet I alone deplore.
Thou wert as a lone star, whose light did shine
On some frail bark in winter's midnight roar:
Thou hast like to a rock-built refuge stood
Above the blind and battling multitude:
In honoured poverty thy voice did weave
Songs consecrate to truth and liberty,--
Deserting these, thou leavest me to grieve,
Thus having been, that thou shouldst cease to be.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011011111 1101110101 101100111 1111110111 1101111111 11111110101 1110111111 111101011 1111011101 0101010010 011001111 110110100 100111111 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 497 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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