Analysis of Time Long Past
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Like the ghost of a dear friend dead
Is Time long past.
A tone which is now forever fled,
A hope which is now forever past,
A love so sweet it could not last,
Was Time long past.
There were sweet dreams in the night
Of Time long past:
And, was it sadness or delight,
Each day a shadow onward cast
Which made us wish it yet might last--
That Time long past.
There is regret, almost remorse,
For Time long past.
'Tis like a child's belovèd corse
A father watches, till at last
Beauty is like remembrance, cast
From Time long past.
Scheme | ABABBB CBCBBB DBDBBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 1111 011110101 011110101 01111111 1111 1011001 1111 01110101 1101101 11111111 1111 1101101 1111 11011011 01010111 10110101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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