Analysis of Stanza
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
If I walk in Autumn's even
While the dead leaves pass,
If I look on Spring’s soft heaven,--
Something is not there which was
Winter's wondrous frost and snow,
Summer's clouds, where are they now?
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101010 10111 11111110 1011111 1010101 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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