Analysis of The Moon
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
AND, like a dying lady lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The mood arose up in the murky east,
A white and shapeless mass.
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
Scheme | AABBXC XDCDXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010101 11110011 1101011001 01010010101 0101100101 010101 1111100 11010010101 1001 01011101001 010101011 1111011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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