This is an analysis of The Waning Moon by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

And like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapped in a gauzy veil,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 1101010111 1101100101 1001011001 11010000101 0101100101 011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6

Repeated words/phrases

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