This is an analysis of Mutability by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gfgX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1111110111 11001111110 1001010011 11011111010 110101011001 110001011001 0111110101 1111010101 11011100101 11110010101 1101110111 0111111101 00011001110 0100010101 11011101010 1101110000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
and, we, or
Anaphora
we