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
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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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. more…

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