...The life of their sweet eyes, with all its error, Should be absorbed, till they to marble grew. To a Skylark Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never...singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. 10 In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightning, Thou dost float and...

...example, generate a sense of stretch or expansiveness, usually (though not always) a slowing down: Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert....singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest. This complex and unusual stanza is built from lines of trochaic trimeter (trochaic, as so often, suggesting...

...And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert,...which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight; Like a...

...Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy füll heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher...which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight; Like a...

...trochaic meter ensures against monotony. To A SKYLARK (Percy Bv.s-.s7ie Shelley, 1792-1822) Hail to tliee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven...lightning Of the sunken sun, O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple...

...fulminada, sin nombre; algunas veces Veo tu pelo rubio tirado por el cielo." PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY "To a Skylark" Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never...which clouds are bright'ning, Thou dost float and run, Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. The pale purple even Melts around thy flight; Like a...