Analysis of To-- Yet look on me
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Yet look on me -- take not thine eyes away,
Which feed upon the love within mine own,
Which is indeed but the reflected ray
Of thine own beauty from my spirit thrown.
Yet speak to me -- thy voice is as the tone
Of my heart’s echo, and I think I hear
That thou yet lovest me; yet thou alone
Like one before a mirror, without care
Of aught but thine own features, imaged there;
And yet I wear out life in watching thee;
A toil so sweet at times, and thou indeed
Art kind when I am sick, and pity me.
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Metre | 1111111101 1101010111 1101100101 1111011101 1111111101 1111001111 111111101 1101010011 111111011 0111110101 0111110101 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 378 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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