Fragment: Sufficient Unto The Day
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Is not to-day enough? Why do I peer
Into the darkness of the day to come?
Is not to-morrow even as yesterday?
And will the day that follows change thy doom?
Few flowers grow upon thy wintry way;
And who waits for thee in that cheerless home
Whence thou hast fled, whither thou must return
Charged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDCEFG |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 345 |
Words | 67 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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