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,…

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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