This is an analysis of The Sunset by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

There late was One within whose subtle being,
As light and wind within some delicate cloud…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcXdefabXcbghbcihhbdeX cjbkbXhbgblgmfhlhfmcc kXijkXb
  • Stanza lengths: 23,21,7,
  • Metre: 11110111010 11110111001 1101011101 1011010111 0100011101 1101000101 1001000111 11010001010 1101011001 10010111010 1001110001 1101111101 1101011101 00110111010 101100101 1100010111 1011011001 01110110001 0101100101 10110100101 1011100101 1101011011 0101111001 1101110101 0111110101 0101010111 1101110101 1101011111 1111110111 0100110111 1110111101 0110001010 0101000101 1101000101 10111010111 0101010101 0101110011 0110010101 0111011111 01011111001 1110000101 1101010111 1111010111 0111110101 1000011111 10011101000 1001111111 1101000111 1111001101 11111101010 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 51

Repeated words/phrases

of, to, and, her

Anaphora

and, her