This is an analysis of On Death by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The pale, the cold, and the moony smile
Which the meteor beam of a starless night…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcc adadde fafade gdgdhh ijijdd
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 010110101 10100100101 110101111 1010010101 0010111011 1111111101 1111101001 1010101101 10100110111 1100100101 111101111 001010100 010010111 0100100111 10100100101 001100001101 111111111 111101100 010100111 111011100 1011110101 1100101101 110111101 0010100101 1100101001 1100101001 1100111101 0110100101 1100010110 00110111111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
of, who
Anaphora
this, who
