Analysis of Wine Of The Fairies
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I am drunk with the honey wine
Of the moon-unfolded eglantine,
Which fairies catch in hyacinth bowls.
The bats, the dormice, and the moles
Sleep in the walls or under the sward
Of the desolate castle yard;
And when ’tis spilt on the summer earth
Or its fumes arise among the dew,
Their jocund dreams are full of mirth,
They gibber their joy in sleep; for few
Of the fairies bear those bowls so new!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 10101010 11010101 0101001 100111001 10100101 011110101 111010101 1111111 11110111 101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 400 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 313 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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