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!


Scheme AABBCDEFEFF
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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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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