Analysis of Song. To [Harriet]
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Ah! sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps on yon fountain,
And sweet the mild rush of the soft-sighing breeze,
And sweet is the glimpse of yon dimly-seen mountain,
'Neath the verdant arcades of yon shadowy trees.
But sweeter than all was thy tone of affection,
Which scarce seemed to break on the stillness of eve,
Though the time it is past!--yet the dear recollection,
For aye in the heart of thy [Percy] must live.
Yet he hears thy dear voice in the summer winds sighing,
Mild accents of happiness lisp in his ear,
When the hope-winged moments athwart him are flying,
And he thinks of the friend to his bosom so dear.--
And thou dearest friend in his bosom for ever
Must reign unalloyed by the fast rolling year,
He loves thee, and dearest one never, Oh! never
Canst thou cease to be loved by a heart so sincere.
Scheme | ABAB AXAX CXCD EDED |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11101111110 01011101101 011011110110 101001111001 110111111010 11111101011 101111101010 1100111111 1111110010110 11011001011 101110011110 011101111011 011010110110 1101101101 111010110110 111111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 820 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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