Fragment: Great Spirit
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Great Spirit whom the sea of boundless thought
Nurtures within its unimagined caves,
In which thou sittest sole, as in my mind,
Giving a voice to its mysterious waves--
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 173 |
| Words | 31 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
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