Analysis of The Birth Place of Pleasure

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



At the creation of the Earth
Pleasure, that divinest birth,
From the soil of Heaven did rise,
Wrapped in sweet wild melodies--
Like an exhalation wreathing
To the sound of air low-breathing
Through Aeolian pines, which make
A shade and shelter to the lake
Whence it rises soft and slow;
Her life-breathing [limbs] did flow
In the harmony divine
Of an ever-lengthening line
Which enwrapped her perfect form
With a beauty clear and warm.


Scheme AABCDDDDEEFFGG
Poetic Form
Metre 10010101 10111 10111011 1011100 110101 10111110 11111 01010101 1110101 0110111 0010001 11101001 110011 1010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 432
Words 76
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 351
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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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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