This is an analysis of Fragment : What Mary Is When She A Little Smiles by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Adapted From The Vita Nuova Of Dante.
What Mary is when she a little smiles…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,3,
  • Metre: 010001010010 1100110101 1101011101 0001001111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 4