Analysis of Mighty Eagle
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Mighty eagle! thou that soarest
O'er the misty mountain forest,
And amid the light of morning
Like a cloud of glory hiest,
And when night descends defiest
The embattled tempests’ warning!
| Scheme | AABAAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111 100101010 00101110 1011101 011011 0010110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 192 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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