'Love's Philosophy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Yet another poem that we are studying in the GCSE cluster of Love and Relationships. I really like this one because of the rhythm. Shelley used a literary technique called the iambic pentameter in 'Love's Philosophy'. Iambic pentameter is made up of five stresses and ten syllables and it replicates a heartbeat, as a result most sonnets have it.
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
Why not I with thine?—
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?
This poem was published in 1819 by the romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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