Analysis of Death Is Here And Death Is There
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
Death is here and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
Above is death—and we are death.
II.
Death has set his mark and seal
On all we are and all we feel,
On all we know and all we fear,
III.
First our pleasures die—and then
Our hopes, and then our fears—and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust—and we die too.
IV.
All things that we love and cherish,
Like ourselves must fade and perish;
Such is our rude mortal lot--
Love itself would, did they not.
Scheme | ABBXX ACCX ADDEE XFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1110111 111010 1010101 01110111 1 1111101 11110111 11110111 1 11010101 1010110101 1110111 1110111 1 11111010 100111010 11101101 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 510 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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