Analysis of Fragment: The Lake's Margin
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
The fierce beasts of the woods and wildernesses
Track not the steps of him who drinks of it;
For the light breezes, which for ever fleet
Around its margin, heap the sand thereon.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110101 1101111111 1011011101 0111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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