Analysis of Epitaph
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
These are two friends whose lives were undivided;
So let their memory be, now they have glided
Under the grave; let not their bones be parted,
For their two hearts in life were single-hearted.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111110010 111100111110 10011111110 11110101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 197 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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