Analysis of From The Prometheus Vinctus Of Aeschylus
George Gordon Lord Byron 1788 (London) – 1824 (Missolonghi, Aetolia)
Great Jove, to whose almighty throne
Both gods and mortals homage pay,
Ne'er may my soul thy power disown,
Thy dread behests ne'er disobey.
Oft shall the sacred victim fall
In sea-girt Ocean's mossy hall;
My voice shall raise no impious strain
'Gainst him who rules the sky and azure main.
How different now thy joyless fate,
Since first Hesione thy bride,
When placed aloft in godlike state,
The blushing beauty by the side,
Thou sat'st, while reverend Ocean smiled,
And mirthful strains the hours beguiled;
The Nymphs and Tritons dances around,
Nor yet thy doom was fix'd, nor Jove relentless frown'd.
Scheme | ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11010101 111111001 111101 11010101 0111011 111110101 1111010101 11001111 11111 1101011 01010101 1111100101 01101001 01011001 111111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 239 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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