Analysis of To Italy
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
As the sunrise to the night,
As the north wind to the clouds,
As the earthquake's fiery flight,
Ruining mountain solitudes,
Everlasting Italy,
Be those hopes and fears on thee.
| Scheme | ABABCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain Heroic Sestet |
| Metre | 101101 1011101 1011001 100101 010100 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 180 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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