Analysis of Shelley's Skylark (The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March, 1887)
Thomas Hardy 1840 (Stinsford) – 1928 (Dorchester, Dorset)
Somewhere afield here something lies
In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust
That moved a poet to prophecies -
A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust
The dust of the lark that Shelley heard,
And made immortal through times to be; -
Though it only lived like another bird,
And knew not its immortality.
Lived its meek life; then, one day, fell -
A little ball of feather and bone;
And how it perished, when piped farewell,
And where it wastes, are alike unknown.
Maybe it rests in the loam I view,
Maybe it throbs in a myrtle's green,
Maybe it sleeps in the coming hue
Of a grape on the slopes of yon inland scene.
Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC DEDE FGFG HAHA IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011101 010100101 110101100 011010101 011011101 010101111 1110110101 01110100 11111111 010111001 01110111 011110101 101100111 10110011 101100101 1011011111 1111101 11011101 01010101 01111101 01111101 01011101 110100111 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 887 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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