Analysis of The Waning Moon
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky east,
A white and shapeless mass.
| Scheme | AABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101010101 11110011 1101011001 01010010101 0101100101 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 230 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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