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
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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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. more…

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