Analysis of Fragment: Wedded Souls

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



I am as a spirit who has dwelt
Within his heart of hearts, and I have felt
His feelings, and have thought his thoughts, and known
The inmost converse of his soul, the tone
Unheard but in the silence of his blood,
When all the pulses in their multitude
Image the trembling calm of summer seas.
I have unlocked the golden melodies
Of his deep soul, as with a master-key,
And loosened them and bathed myself therein--
Even as an eagle in a thunder-mist
Clothing his wings with lightning.


Scheme AABBCDEEFGHI
Poetic Form
Metre 111010111 0111110111 1100111101 011011101 0110010111 110100110 10010011101 1101010100 1111110101 010101101 10111000101 1011110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 482
Words 91
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 383
Words per stanza (avg) 89
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 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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