This is an analysis of Song. Translated From The German by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Ah! grasp the dire dagger and couch the fell spear,
If vengeance and death to thy bosom be dear,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee ffbb X
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,1,
- Metre: 110101011011 01011011001 01011010111 11101101001 11001011111 00101101011 010001011011 011001001011 11101111001 011110011001 101001001001 111001001101 0010010010011 01011101101 110001001011 001001100101 0101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
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