This is an analysis of To Constantia, Singing by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
I.
Thus to be lost and thus to sink and die,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aababcdcdd XeXefXbbgbgg XffffhihfifX XajXjXcbdcdd
- Stanza lengths: 10,12,12,12,
- Metre: 1 1001110111 0101011001 01110101111 10101101111 01111101 01111111110001 101111011 10111110111 011011111101 1 01011011 011101010 1111000001 11010101010 0101011110 10010011 111101110 01000101 01010111 0101010111 1011001111101 1 010100111010 10000011101 01110111010 1110010101 11011111 010100011 11011111 11110101 110100101 1101100111 110101010100 1 1111100111 1101010111 1111110100 1011010111 11110110 011011111 01010101 11010101 11010101 1101001101 10001110001001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 46
Repeated words/phrases
thy, my
