Analysis of Sonnet -- Ye Hasten To The Grave!
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Ye hasten to the grave! What seek ye there,
Ye restless thoughts and busy purposes
Of the idle brain, which the world's livery wear?
O thou quick heart, which pantest to possess
All that pale Expectation feigneth fair!
Thou vainly curious mind which wouldest guess
Whence thou didst come, and whither thou must go,
And all that never yet was known would know--
Oh, whither hasten ye, that thus ye press,
With such swift feet life's green and pleasant path,
Seeking, alike from happiness and woe,
A refuge in the cavern of gray death?
O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you
Hope to inherit in the grave below?
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Metre | 1101011111 1101010100 101011011001 111111101 11101011 1101001111 1111010111 0111011111 1101011111 1111110101 1001110001 0100010111 1101011111 1101000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 617 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 487 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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