This is an analysis of Fragment: Amor Aeternus by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Wealth and dominion fade into the mass
Of the great sea of human right and wrong,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababaX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 1101010001 0011010111 1101010111 1110010001 0111010101 1111100111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6