Analysis of Chorus from Hellas
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
The world`s great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn:
Heaven smiles, and faith and empires gleam,
Like a wrecks of a dissolving dream.
A brighter Hellas rears its mountains
From waves serener far;
A new Peneus rolls his fountains
Against the morning star.
Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep
Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep.
A loftier Argo cleaves the main,
Fraught with a later prize;
Another Orpheus sings again,
And loves, and weeps, and dies.
A new Ulyssses leaves once more
Calypso for his native shore...
Scheme | AXAABB CDCDEE XFXFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101 010101 01110101 01011 1010101001 101100101 01011110 1111 0111110 010101 1101111 111011 010010101 110101 010100101 010101 011111 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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