Analysis of Fragment: Amor Aeternus
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Wealth and dominion fade into the mass
Of the great sea of human right and wrong,
When once from our possession they must pass;
But love, though misdirected, is among
The things which are immortal, and surpass
All that frail stuff which will be--or which was.
| Scheme | ABACAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001010101 1011110101 11110010111 1110010101 0111010001 1111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 263 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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