Analysis of A Bridal Song
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
The golden gates of Sleep unbar
Where Strength and Beauty, met together,
Kindle their image like a star
In a sea of glassy weather!
Night, with all thy stars look down,--
Darkness, weep thy holiest dew,--
Never smiled the inconstant moon
On a pair so true.
Let eyes not see their own delight;--
Haste, swift Hour, and thy flight
Oft renew.
II.
Fairies, sprites, and angels, keep her!
Holy stars, permit no wrong!
And return to wake the sleeper,
Dawn,—ere it be long!
O joy! O fear! what will be done
In the absence of the sun!
Come along!
Scheme | ABBBBXCXBDDC ABEBEFFE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1 0101111 110101010 10110101 00111010 1111111 10111001 101011 10111 11111101 1110011 101 1 10101010 1010111 00111010 11111 11111111 0010101 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 534 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 8 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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