Analysis of The Aziola

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)



I.
'Do you not hear the Aziola cry?
Methinks she must be nigh,'
Said Mary, as we sate
In dusk, ere stars were lit, or candles brought;
And I, who thought
This Aziola was some tedious woman,
Asked, 'Who is Aziola?' How elate
I felt to know that it was nothing human,
No mockery of myself to fear or hate:
And Mary saw my soul,
And laughed, and said, 'Disquiet yourself not;
'Tis nothing but a little downy owl.'

II.
Sad Aziola! many an eventide
Thy music I had heard
By wood and stream, meadow and mountain-side,
And fields and marshes wide,--
Such as nor voice, nor lute, nor wind, nor bird,
The soul ever stirred;
Unlike and far sweeter than them all.
Sad Aziola! from that moment I
Loved thee and thy sad cry.


Scheme AAABCCDBDBXXX ABEFFEEXAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1 1111011 11111 110111 0111011101 0111 111110010 1111101 11111111010 1100111111 010111 0101010011 1101010101 1 111011 110111 110110101 010101 1111111111 01101 010110111 1111101 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 699
Words 141
Sentences 10
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 13, 10
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 268
Words per stanza (avg) 68
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 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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