Analysis of Fragment: Sufficient Unto The Day
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Is not to-day enough? Why do I peer
Into the darkness of the day to come?
Is not to-morrow even as yesterday?
And will the day that follows change thy doom?
Few flowers grow upon thy wintry way;
And who waits for thee in that cheerless home
Whence thou hast fled, whither thou must return
Charged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn?
| Scheme | ABCDCEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011111 0101010111 1111010110 0101110111 1101011101 011110111 1111101101 1101111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 345 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 270 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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