Analysis of To Mary ----

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



O Mary dear, that you were here
With your brown eyes bright and clear.
And your sweet voice, like a bird
Singing love to its lone mate
In the ivy bower disconsolate;
Voice the sweetest ever heard!
And your brow more...
Than the sky
Of this azure Italy.
Mary dear, come to me soon,
I am not well whilst thou art far;
As sunset to the sphered moon,
As twilight to the western star,
Thou, beloved, art to me.

O Mary dear, that you were here;
The Castle echo whispers 'Here!'


Scheme Axbxbbxxcdedec Aa
Poetic Form
Metre 11011101 1111101 0111101 1011111 0010101 1010101 0111 101 1110100 1011111 11111111 111011 1110101 101111 11011101 01010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 464
Words 94
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 14, 2
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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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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