Analysis of Mutability - II.
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
The flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world’s delight?
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.
II.
Virtue, how frail it is!
Friendship how rare!
Love, how it sells poor bliss
For proud despair!
But we, though soon they fall,
Survive their joy, and all
Which ours we call.
III.
Whilst skies are blue and bright,
Whilst flowers are gay,
Whilst eyes that change ere night
Make glad the day;
Whilst yet the calm hours creep,
Dream thou—and from thy sleep
Then wake to weep.
Scheme | ABCBCDDD AXEXEFFF ADBDBGGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 0101111 1101 111111 1011 111101 101101 11011 1 101111 1011 111111 1101 111111 011101 11011 1 111101 11011 111111 1101 1101101 110111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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