Analysis of When Soft Winds And Sunny Skies
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
When soft winds and sunny skies
With the green earth harmonize,
And the young and dewy dawn,
Bold as an unhunted fawn,
Up the windless heaven is gone,--
Laugh—for ambushed in the day,--
Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey.
| Scheme | AABBBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 101110 0010101 11111 1011011 111001 101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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