Analysis of Fragment : What Mary Is When She A Little Smiles
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Adapted From The Vita Nuova Of Dante.
What Mary is when she a little smiles
I cannot even tell or call to mind,
It is a miracle so new, so rare.
| Scheme | X XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101010110 1101110101 1101011111 1101001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 149 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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