Analysis of The Indian Serenade

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



I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright
I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Hath led me--who knows how?
To thy chamber window, Sweet!

The wandering airs they faint
On the dark, the silent stream--
The champak odors fail
Like sweet thoughts in a dream;
The nightingale's complaint,
It dies upon her heart;
As I must on thine,
Oh, beloved as thou art!

O lift me from the grass!
 die! I faint! I fail!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale.
My cheek is cold and white, alas!
My heart beats loud and fast;--
Oh! press it to thine own again,
Where it will break at last.


Scheme AbxbAcxc defedgxg hfxfhixi
Poetic Form
Metre 1011111 0011111 1011101 0011101 1011111 0010011 111111 1110101 0100111 1010101 01101 111001 0101 110101 11111 101111 111101 11111 1110101 111011 11110101 111101 11111101 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 675
Words 138
Sentences 12
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 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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