Analysis of And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned Withal

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)



And that I walk thus proudly crowned withal
Is that 'tis my distinction; if I fall,
I shall not weep out of the vital day,
To-morrow dust, nor wear a dull decay.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Metre 011111011 1111010111 1111110101 1101110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 166
Words 34
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 123
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. more…

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