Analysis of Epigram III: Spirit of Plato
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
From the Greek.
Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb?
To what sublime and star-ypaven home
Floatest thou?--
I am the image of swift Plato’s spirit,
Ascending heaven; Athens doth inherit
His corpse below.
| Scheme | X XXXAAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 101110111 11010111 11 1101011110 01010101010 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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