Analysis of Fragment: To A Friend Released From Prison

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



For me, my friend, if not that tears did tremble
In my faint eyes, and that my heart beat fast
With feelings which make rapture pain resemble,
Yet, from thy voice that falsehood starts aghast,
I thank thee--let the tyrant keep
His chains and tears, yea, let him weep
With rage to see thee freshly risen,
Like strength from slumber, from the prison,
In which he vainly hoped the soul to bind
Which on the chains must prey that fetter humankind.


Scheme ABABCCDDEE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 11111111110 0111011111 11011101010 111111101 11110101 11011111 111111010 111101010 0111010111 11011111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 443
Words 83
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 349
Words per stanza (avg) 81
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 14, 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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