Lyric Poem · Death & Loss
Stanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn
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“Stanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/stanza-from-a-translation-of-the-marseillaise-hymn
Quick facts
- Poem
- Stanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 9 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Death & Loss, War & Remembrance, Short
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 9 lines · one 9-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 8-syllable lines (tetrameter length).
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBStanza From a Translation of the Marseillaise Hymn by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 f713daf0eef94d2d…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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