This is an analysis of Fragment: Wedded Souls by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

I am as a spirit who has dwelt
Within his heart of hearts, and I have felt…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXbaX
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 111010111 0101011111 0101110111 0101000101 0110010001 1101001101 10010010101 1101010100 0011100101 1100111101 10111000101 1001010
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

his, and