Demogorgon: God: Almighty God
ASIA:Who made that sense which, when the winds of SpringIn rarest visitation, or the voiceOf one beloved heard in youth alone,Fills the faint eyes with falling tears which dimThe radiant looks of unbewailing flowers,And leaves this peopled earth a solitudeWhen it returns no more?
Words in this poem
- visitation n.
- The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination. [L. visitatio: cf. F. visitation.]
- peopled a.
- Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Demogorgon: God: Almighty God is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1, Project Gutenberg ebook #4797; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
Demogorgon: God: Almighty God is 8 lines in a single verse paragraph. It is unrhymed, as far as the pronouncing dictionary can tell. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 91%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 8.6 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 50% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
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Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| ASIA: | 2 | /˘ |
| Who made that sense which, when the winds of Spring | 10 | ·········· |
| In rarest visitation, or the voice | 10 | ·/˘·˘/˘··· |
| Of one beloved heard in youth alone, | 10 | ··˘/˘···˘/ |
| Fills the faint eyes with falling tears which dim | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| The radiant looks of unbewailing flowers, | 11 | ·/˘······/˘ |
| And leaves this peopled earth a solitude | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| When it returns no more? | 6 | ··˘/·· |
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