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 |
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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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