Analysis of A Dirge
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Rough wind, that moanest loud
Grief too sad for song;
Wild wind, when sullen cloud
Knells all the night long;
Sad storm whose tears are vain,
Bare woods, whose branches strain,
Deep caves and dreary main,--
Wail, for the world’s wrong!
| Scheme | ABABCCCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 11111 111101 11011 111111 111101 110101 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 239 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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