Analysis of The Magnetic Lady To Her Patient
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
'Sleep, sleep on! forget thy pain;
My hand is on thy brow,
My spirit on thy brain;
My pity on thy heart, poor friend;
And from my fingers flow
The powers of life, and like a sign,
Seal thee from thine hour of woe;
And brood on thee, but may not blend
With thine.
II.
'Sleep, sleep on! I love thee not;
But when I think that he
Who made and makes my lot
As full of flowers as thine of weeds,
Might have been lost like thee;
And that a hand which was not mine
Might then have charmed his agony
As I another's--my heart bleeds
For thine.
III.
'Sleep, sleep, and with the slumber of
The dead and the unborn
Forget thy life and love;
Forget that thou must wake forever;
Forget the world's dull scorn;
Forget lost health, and the divine
Feelings which died in youth's brief morn;
And forget me, for I can never
Be thine.
IV.
'Like a cloud big with a May shower,
My soul weeps healing rain
On thee, thou withered flower!
It breathes mute music on thy sleep
Its odour calms thy brain!
Its light within thy gloomy breast
Spreads like a second youth again.
By mine thy being is to its deep
Possessed.
V.
'The spell is done. How feel you now?'
'Better—Quite well,' replied
The sleeper.--'What would do
You good when suffering and awake?
What cure your head and side?--'
‘What would cure, that would kill me, Jane:
And as I must on earth abide
Awhile, yet tempt me not to break
My chain.'
Scheme | ABCBDEFEDF AGHGIHFHIF AJKJLKFKLF JLBLMBNXMN HCOXPOBOPB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (38%) Etheree (38%) |
Metre | 1 1110111 111111 110111 11011111 011101 010110101 11111011 01111111 11 1 1111111 111111 110111 111101111 111111 01011111 11111100 11010111 11 1 11010101 010011 011101 011111010 010111 01110001 10110111 001111110 11 1 101110110 111101 1111010 11110111 11111 11011101 11010101 111101111 01 1 01111111 101101 010111 111100001 111101 11111111 01111101 01111111 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,349 |
Words | 272 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 50 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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