Analysis of Fragment: To The People Of England
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
PEOPLE of England, ye who toil and groan,
Who reap the harvests which are not your own,
Who weave the clothes which your oppressors wear,
And for your own take the inclement air;
Who build warm houses . . .
And are like gods who give them all they have,
And nurse them from the cradle to the grave . . .
| Scheme | AABBCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011011101 1101011111 1101110101 0111100101 11110 0111111111 0111010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 305 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 230 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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