Song. To [harriet] by Percy Bysshe Shelley: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Song. To [harriet] that begins with:

Ah! sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps on yon fountain,
And sweet the mild rush of the soft-sighing breeze,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede fefe X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011111110 11011001101 110010110110 101001011001 110111110010 11101101001 1010011011010 11001011011 1111110010110 11001001001 101110011110 111001001011 111010010110 11011101101 111110110110 111001101101 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, yon, sweet are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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