Analysis of Fragment: Love The Universe To-Day
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
And who feels discord now or sorrow?
Love is the universe to-day--
These are the slaves of dim to-morrow,
Darkening Life's labyrinthine way.
Scheme | ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011101110 1101011 110111110 1001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 145 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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