Archy's Song from Charles the First (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning For Her Love)

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



Heigho! the lark and the owl!
        One flies the morning, and one lulls the night:
    Only the nightingale, poor fond soul,
        Sings like the fool through darkness and light.

          'A widow bird sate mourning for her love
              Upon a wintry bough;
          The frozen wind crept on above,
              The freezing stream below.

          'There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
            No flower upon the ground,
          And little motion in the air
            Except the mill-wheel's sound.'

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 12, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA BXBX CDCD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 523
Words 77
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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