Analysis of The World's Wanderers

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)



I.
Tell me, thou Star, whose wings of light
Speed thee in thy fiery flight,
In what cavern of the night
Will thy pinions close now?

II.
Tell me, Moon, thou pale and gray
Pilgrim of Heaven’s homeless way,
In what depth of night or day
Seekest thou repose now?

III.
Weary Wind, who wanderest
Like the world’s rejected guest,
Hast thou still some secret nest
On the tree or billow?


Scheme ABBBC ADDDC ABEEX
Poetic Form
Metre 1 11111111 11011001 0110101 11111 1 1111101 10110101 0111111 11011 1 10111 1010101 1111101 101110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 377
Words 73
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. more…

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