This is an analysis of Wake The Serpent Not by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Wake the serpent not—lest he
Should not know the way to go,--…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXabbaa
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 1010111 1110101 11111110 10110011 10111110 10111010 001001110 10111110 10101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

not

Anaphora

not