Analysis of Sonnet : From The Italian Of Dante

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



Guido, I would that Lapo, thou, and I,
Led by some strong enchantment, might ascend
A magic ship, whose charmed sails should fly
With winds at will where’er our thoughts might wend,
So that no change, nor any evil chance
Should mar our joyous voyage; but it might be,
That even satiety should still enhance
Between our hearts their strict community:
And that the bounteous wizard then would place
Vanna and Bice and my gentle love,
Companions of our wandering, and would grace
With passionate talk, wherever we might rove,
Our time, and each were as content and free
As I believe that thou and I should be.


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Poetic Form
Metre 101111101 1111010101 010111111 1111110111 1111110101 111010101111 11011101 01101110100 010110111 100101101 010110100011 11001010111 10101011001 1101110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 605
Words 110
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 481
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 02, 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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