This is an analysis of Mutability - Ii. by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
I.
The flower that smiles to-day…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aababccc XbdXdeee Xcacafff
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 1 0101101 0101 111101 1111 100101 101101 11011 1 101100 1011 110111 1101 111111 011111 1111 1 111111 11011 111111 1101 1101101 111011 1101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
to, how, whilst
Anaphora
whilst
