Analysis of Fragment: My Head Is Wild With Weeping
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
My head is wild with weeping for a grief
Which is the shadow of a gentle mind.
I walk into the air (but no relief
To seek,--or haply, if I sought, to find;
It came unsought);--to wonder that a chief
Among men’s spirits should be cold and blind.
| Scheme | ABABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain Sicilian Sestet |
| Metre | 1111110101 110110101 1101011101 111111111 111110101 0111011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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