Analysis of Fragment: Home
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys,
The least of which wronged Memory ever makes
Bitterer than all thine unremembered tears.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 11111100101 01111100101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 144 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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