Analysis of Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisa
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
The sun is set; the swallows are asleep;
The bats are flitting fast in the gray air;
The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep,
And evening’s breath, wandering here and there
Over the quivering surface of the stream,
Wakes not one ripple from its summer dream.
II.
There is no dew on the dry grass to-night,
Nor damp within the shadow of the trees;
The wind is intermitting, dry, and light;
And in the inconstant motion of the breeze
The dust and straws are driven up and down,
And whirled about the pavement of the town.
III.
Within the surface of the fleeting river
The wrinkled image of the city lay,
Immovably unquiet, and forever
It trembles, but it never fades away;
Go to the...
You, being changed, will find it then as now.
IV.
The chasm in which the sun has sunk is shut
By darkest barriers of cinereous cloud,
Like mountain over mountain huddled--but
Growing and moving upwards in a crowd,
And over it a space of watery blue,
Which the keen evening star is shining through.
Scheme | ABCBCDD AEFEFGG AHIHIXX XJKJKLL |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 0111010101 0111010011 0111111101 0101100101 10010010101 1111011101 1 1111101111 110101101 0111101 000110101 0101110101 0101010101 1 01010101010 0101010101 110010 111110101 110 1101111111 1 01001011111 110100111 1101010101 1001010001 01010111001 1011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 976 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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