Analysis of Eyes : A Fragment
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
How eloquent are eyes!
Not the rapt poet's frenzied lay
When the soul's wildest feelings stray
Can speak so well as they.
How eloquent are eyes!
Not music’s most impassioned note
On which Love’s warmest fervours float
Like them bids rapture rise.
Love, look thus again,--
That your look may light a waste of years,
Darting the beam that conquers cares
Through the cold shower of tears.
Love, look thus again!
| Scheme | AbbbAcca DxeeD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110011 10110101 10110101 111111 110011 11010101 1111011 111101 11101 111110111 10011101 1011011 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 408 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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