Analysis of The Rude Wind Is Singing
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
The rude wind is singing
The dirge of the music dead;
The cold worms are clinging
Where kisses were lately fed.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 011110 0110101 011110 1100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 116 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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