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
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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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. more…

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