Analysis of St. Irvyne's Tower
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
How swiftly through Heaven's wide expanse
Bright day's resplendent colours fade!
How sweetly does the moonbeam's glance
With silver tint St. Irvyne's glade!
II.
No cloud along the spangled air,
Is borne upon the evening breeze;
How solemn is the scene! how fair
The moonbeams rest upon the trees!
III.
Yon dark gray turret glimmers white,
Upon it sits the mournful owl;
Along the stillness of the night,
Her melancholy shriekings roll.
IV.
But not alone on Irvyne's tower,
The silver moonbeam pours her ray;
It gleams upon the ivied bower,
It dances in the cascade's spray.
V.
'Ah! why do dark’ning shades conceal
The hour, when man must cease to be?
Why may not human minds unveil
The dim mists of futurity?--
VI.
'The keenness of the world hath torn
The heart which opens to its blast;
Despised, neglected, and forlorn,
Sinks the wretch in death at last.'
Scheme | ABCBC ADEDE AFXFX GHIHI GXXXC AJKJK |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) |
Metre | 1 110110101 1101011 1101011 1101111 1 11010101 11010101 11010111 0110101 1 11110101 01110101 01010101 010011 1 11011110 0101101 11010110 11000011 1 1111101 010111111 11110101 01111 1 0110111 01110111 01010001 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 844 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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