Analysis of The Past
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
Wilt thou forget the happy hours
Which we buried in Love’s sweet bowers,
Heaping over their corpses cold
Blossoms and leaves, instead of mould?
Blossoms which were the joys that fell,
And leaves, the hopes that yet remain.
II.
Forget the dead, the past? Oh, yet
There are ghosts that may take revenge for it,
Memories that make the heart a tomb,
Regrets which glide through the spirit’s gloom,
And with ghastly whispers tell
That joy, once lost, is pain.
Scheme | ABBCCDE AXXFFDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 110101010 111001110 10101101 10010111 10100111 01011101 1 01010111 1111110111 100110101 011110101 0110101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 456 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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