Analysis of Wake The Serpent Not
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Wake the serpent not—lest he
Should not know the way to go,--
Let him crawl which yet lies sleeping
Through the deep grass of the meadow!
Not a bee shall hear him creeping,
Not a may-fly shall awaken
From its cradling blue-bell shaken,
Not the starlight as he’s sliding
Through the grass with silent gliding.
| Scheme | ABCBCDDCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 1010111 1110111 11111110 1011101 10111110 10111010 111001110 1011110 10111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 313 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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