Analysis of To the Moon
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth, -
And ever changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
| Scheme | ABABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111100 11010010101 1001 01011101001 010101011 1111011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 226 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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