Analysis of Fragment Of The Elegy On The Death Of Bion
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
From the Greek of Moschus.
Ye Dorian woods and waves, lament aloud,--
Augment your tide, O streams, with fruitless tears,
For the beloved Bion is no more.
Let every tender herb and plant and flower,
From each dejected bud and drooping bloom,
Shed dews of liquid sorrow, and with breath
Of melancholy sweetness on the wind
Diffuse its languid love; let roses blush,
Anemones grow paler for the loss
Their dells have known; and thou, O hyacinth,
Utter thy legend now--yet more, dumb flower,
Than 'Ah! alas!'--thine is no common grief--
Bion the [sweetest singer] is no more.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 11001010101 0111111101 10011111 110010101010 1101010101 1111010011 110010101 0111011101 111101 111101110 10110111110 111111101 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 569 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 13 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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