Analysis of Lines -- Far, Far Away, O Ye
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
Far, far away, O ye
Halcyons of Memory,
Seek some far calmer nest
Than this abandoned breast!
No news of your false spring
To my heart’s winter bring,
Once having gone, in vain
Ye come again.
II.
Vultures, who build your bowers
High in the Future’s towers,
Withered hopes on hopes are spread!
Dying joys, choked by the dead,
Will serve your beaks for prey
Many a day.
| Scheme | ABBCCDDXX AEEFFGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 110111 11100 111101 110101 111111 111101 110101 1101 1 1011110 1001010 1011111 1011101 111111 1001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 368 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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