Analysis of To Sophia (Miss Stacey)
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
Thou art fair, and few are fairer
Of the Nymphs of earth or ocean;
They are robes that fit the wearer--
Those soft limbs of thine, whose motion
Ever falls and shifts and glances
As the life within them dances.
II.
Thy deep eyes, a double Planet,
Gaze the wisest into madness
With soft clear fire,--the winds that fan it
Are those thoughts of tender gladness
Which, like zephyrs on the billow,
Make thy gentle soul their pillow.
III.
If, whatever face thou paintest
In those eyes, grows pale with pleasure,
If the fainting soul is faintest
When it hears thy harp’s wild measure,
Wonder not that when thou speakest
Of the weak my heart is weakest.
IV.
As dew beneath the wind of morning,
As the sea which whirlwinds waken,
As the birds at thunder’s warning,
As aught mute yet deeply shaken,
As one who feels an unseen spirit
Is my heart when thine is near it.
Scheme | ABCBCDX AEXFDGG AEBHBEH XICICEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 11101110 10111110 11111010 11111110 10101010 10101110 1 11101010 10100110 1111001111 1111101 11101010 11101110 1 110111 01111110 10101110 11111110 1011111 10111110 1 110101110 1011110 10111010 11111010 111110110 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 847 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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