Analysis of Fragment: Apostrophe To Silence

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)



Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou
Three brethren named, the guardians gloomy-winged
Of one abyss, where life, and truth, and joy
Are swallowed up—yet spare me, Spirit, pity me,
Until the sounds I hear become my soul,
And it has left these faint and weary limbs,
To track along the lapses of the air
This wandering melody until it rests
Among lone mountains in some...


Scheme ABCDEFGHI
Poetic Form
Metre 1011110101 11010100101 1101110101 110111110101 0101110111 0111110101 1101010101 11001000111 0111001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 383
Words 70
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 297
Words per stanza (avg) 68
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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