Analysis of Fragment : What Mary Is When She A Little Smiles
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Adapted From The Vita Nuova Of Dante.
What Mary is when she a little smiles
I cannot even tell or call to mind,
It is a miracle so new, so rare.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101010110 1101110101 1101011111 1101001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 149 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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