This is an analysis of Archy's Song From Charles The First (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning For Her Love) by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Heigho! the lark and the owl!
One flies the morning, and one lulls the night:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eXeX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 1001101 1101011101 100100111 110111011 1101110101 010101 01011101 010101 1111010101 1100101 11010001 010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
the
