Analysis of Good-Night

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



Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be good night.

How can I call the lone night good,
Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?
Be it not said, thought, understood --
Then it will be -- good night.

To hearts which near each other move
From evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because, my love,
They never say good-night.


Scheme ABAB CBCB XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111101011 1101111 11010101 111111 11110111 11110111 1111101 111111 11111101 11011101 01110111 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 411
Words 79
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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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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