Analysis of Song From The Wandering Jew
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
See yon opening flower
Spreads its fragrance to the blast;
It fades within an hour,
Its decay is pale--is fast.
Paler is yon maiden;
Faster is her heart's decay;
Deep with sorrow laden,
She sinks in death away.
| Scheme | ABABCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
| Metre | 1110010 1110101 1101110 1011111 11110 1010101 111010 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 211 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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