Analysis of Fragment: The Vine-Shroud
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Flourishing vine, whose kindling clusters glow
Beneath the autumnal sun, none taste of thee;
For thou dost shroud a ruin, and below
The rotting bones of dead antiquity.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1001110101 01001011111 1111010001 0101110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 173 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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