Analysis of Fragment: A Wanderer
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
He wanders, like a day-appearing dream,
Through the dim wildernesses of the mind;
Through desert woods and tracts, which seem
Like ocean, homeless, boundless, unconfined.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101010101 1011101 11010111 110101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 175 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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