hat that is precisely what the poet is doing--hailing the bird and speaking directly to it. The next three lines generally follow the same pattern as the opening line, and the fifth line has six measures, often with a varied stress pattern to emphasize a concluding idea, as in the first stanza when the trochee gives way to the iamb for "unpremeditated art."
The speaker is the poet himself, as is true of the Keats poem, and in each case the poet indicates a relationship between the observation of nature and the art produced by the speaker. The tone of the Shelley poem is a tone of wonder and joy as he speaks to the bird and marvels at the ability of the bird to soar so high and to produce such natural art. The bird itself is described as bei
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