Analysis of Evening. To Harriet
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
O thou bright Sun! beneath the dark blue line
Of western distance that sublime descendest,
And, gleaming lovelier as thy beams decline,
Thy million hues to every vapour lendest,
And, over cobweb lawn and grove and stream
Sheddest the liquid magic of thy light,
Till calm Earth, with the parting splendour bright,
Shows like the vision of a beauteous dream;
What gazer now with astronomic eye
Could coldly count the spots within thy sphere?
Such were thy lover, Harriet, could he fly
The thoughts of all that makes his passion dear,
And, turning senseless from thy warm caress,--
Pick flaws in our close-woven happiness.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010111 110101011 010111101 1101110011 010110101 101010111 111101011 110101011 111111 1101010111 10110100111 0111111101 0101011101 11010110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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