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 |
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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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