Analysis of Song For 'Tasso'
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
I loved—alas! our life is love;
But when we cease to breathe and move
I do suppose love ceases too.
I thought, but not as now I do,
Keen thoughts and bright of linked lore,
Of all that men had thought before.
And all that Nature shows, and more.
II.
And still I love and still I think,
But strangely, for my heart can drink
The dregs of such despair, and live,
And love;...
And if I think, my thoughts come fast,
I mix the present with the past,
And each seems uglier than the last.
III.
Sometimes I see before me flee 15
A silver spirit’s form, like thee,
O Leonora, and I sit
...still watching it,
Till by the grated casement’s ledge
It fades, with such a sigh, as sedge
Breathes o’er the breezy streamlet’s edge.
Scheme | ABXCCDDD AEEXBFFF AGGHHIII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 110110111 11111101 11011101 11111111 1101111 11111101 01110101 1 01110111 11011111 01110101 01 01111111 11010101 011100101 1 01110111 01010111 1010011 1101 1101011 11110111 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 714 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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