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!'
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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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