Analysis of Music, When Soft Voices Die
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
| Scheme | XXAA BBXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011101 1000100 11110010 10101110 1110111 111011 01111111 1011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 265 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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