A Hate-Song

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



A hater he came and sat by a ditch,
And he took an old cracked lute;
And he sang a song which was more of a screech
'Gainst a woman that was a brute.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme ABCB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 154
Words 36
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

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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