Analysis of Summer And Winter
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
It was a bright and cheerful afternoon,
Towards the end of the sunny month of June,
When the north wind congregates in crowds
The floating mountains of the silver clouds
From the horizon—and the stainless sky
Opens beyond them like eternity.
All things rejoiced beneath the sun; the weeds,
The river, and the corn-fields, and the reeds;
The willow leaves that glanced in the light breeze,
And the firm foliage of the larger trees.
It was a winter such as when birds die
In the deep forests; and the fishes lie
Stiffened in the translucent ice, which makes
Even the mud and slime of the warm lakes
A wrinkled clod as hard as brick; and when,
Among their children, comfortable men
Gather about great fires, and yet feel cold:
Alas, then, for the homeless beggar old!
Scheme | AABBCXDDEE CCFFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101001 01011010111 1011101 0101010101 1001000101 1001110100 1101010101 0100011001 011110011 0011010101 1101011111 0011000101 1000010111 1001011011 0101111101 0111010001 10011100111 0111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 8 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 304 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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