Laurel · Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ode to the West Wind, and Other Poems

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) · 1816–1819

Mixed forms · 6,270 lines in 209 sections

Shelley from 1816 to 1819: "Ozymandias", the "Ode to the West Wind", "To a Skylark", "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty", "Sonnet: England in 1819".

Measured across the book

Across its 6,270 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 93%). Alliteration runs at 1.12 times what shuffling the words would give (0.32 observed against 0.29 expected). 24% of the lines have a feminine ending.

Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.

Contents

Stanza, Written at Bracknelliambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 8 lines Stanzas.—April, 1814iambic heptameter · ABAB · 24 lines To Harrietiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 30 lines To Mary Wollstonecraft Godwiniambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 36 lines To --. 'Yet look on me'iambic pentameter · 12 lines Mutabilityiambic pentameter · ABAB · 16 lines On Deathiambic pentameter · 31 lines A Summer Evening Churchyard, Lechlade, Gloucestershireiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 30 lines To --. 'Oh! there are spirits of the air'iambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 36 lines To Wordsworthiambic pentameter · 14 lines Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparteiambic pentameter · 14 lines Linesiambic tetrameter · 24 lines The Sunsetiambic pentameter · 51 lines Hymn to Intellectual Beautyiambic pentameter · 83 lines Mont Blanciambic pentameter · 144 lines Cancelled Passage of Mont Blanciambic pentameter · 5 lines Fragment of a Ghost Storyiambic tetrameter · 8 lines Marianne's Dreamiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 147 lines To Constantia, Singingiambic pentameter · 42 lines To Constantia, Singing: The Same, Stanzas 1 and 2iambic pentameter · 14 lines To Constantiaiambic tetrameter · 12 lines Fragment: To One Singingiambic pentameter · 6 lines A Fragment: To Musiciambic pentameter · 5 lines 'Mighty Eagle'trochaic tetrameter · AABAAB · 6 lines To the Lord Chancelloriambic pentameter · ABAB · 64 lines To William Shelleyiambic tetrameter · 52 lines From the Original Draft of the Poem to William Shelleyiambic tetrameter · 15 lines On Fanny Godwintrochaic pentameter · 6 lines Linesiambic tetrameter · 14 lines Deathiambic pentameter · 16 lines Othoiambic pentameter · ABABCBCC · 16 lines Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Othoiambic pentameter · 16 lines 'O That a Chariot of Cloud Were Mine'iambic pentameter · 8 lines Fragment: To a Friend Released from Prisoniambic pentameter · AABB · 10 lines Fragment: Satan Broken Looseiambic pentameter · ABABCCDDDEFFEGG · 15 lines Fragment: "Igniculus Desiderii"iambic hexameter · AABB · 8 lines Fragment: "Amor Aeternus"iambic pentameter · 6 lines Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitudeiambic pentameter · 5 lines A Hate-Songiambic pentameter · 4 lines Lines to a Criticcommon measure · ABAB · 16 lines Ozymandiasiambic pentameter · 14 lines To the Nileiambic pentameter · 14 lines Passage of the Apenninesiambic pentameter · 13 lines The Pastiambic tetrameter · AABB · 12 lines To Maryiambic tetrameter · 16 lines On a Faded Violetiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 lines Lines Written Among the Euganean Hillstrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 373 lines Scene from 'Tasso'iambic pentameter · 36 lines Song for 'Tasso'iambic tetrameter · AABBCCC · 21 lines Invocation to Miserytrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 65 lines Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naplesiambic tetrameter · ABABBCBCC · 45 lines The Woodman and the Nightingaleiambic pentameter · 70 lines Marenghiiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 161 lines Sonnetiambic pentameter · 14 lines Fragment: Apostrophe to Silenceiambic pentameter · 9 lines Fragment: The Lake's Marginiambic pentameter · 4 lines Fragment: 'My Head Is Wild with Weeping'iambic pentameter · ABABAB · 6 lines Fragment: The Vine-Shroudiambic pentameter · 4 lines Lines Written During the Castlereagh Administrationanapaestic trimeter · AAABB · 25 lines Song to the Men of Englandtrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 32 lines Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819iambic tetrameter · ABAAB · 20 lines Fragment: To the People of Englandiambic pentameter · AABB · 8 lines Fragment: 'What men gain fairly'iambic pentameter · 9 lines A New National Anthemiambic trimeter · AABCCCB · 42 lines Sonnet: England in 1819iambic pentameter · ABABABCDCDCCDD · 14 lines An Ode, Written October, 1819iambic pentameter · ABABCCC · 35 lines Cancelled Stanzatrochaic pentameter · 7 lines Ode to Heaventrochaic tetrameter · 54 lines Cancelled Fragments of the Ode to Heaventrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 10 lines Ode to the West Windiambic pentameter · 70 lines An Exhortationtrochaic tetrameter · ABABCDDCC · 27 lines The Indian Serenadeiambic tetrameter · 24 lines To Sophiatrochaic tetrameter · ABABCC · 24 lines To William Shelleyiambic tetrameter · 21 lines To William Shelleyiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 6 lines To Mary Shelleyiambic pentameter · AABB · 8 lines To Mary Shelleyiambic trimeter · AABCCB · 6 lines On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Galleryiambic pentameter · ABABABCC · 40 lines Love's Philosophyiambic tetrameter · 16 lines Fragment: 'Follow to the Deep Wood's Weeds'trochaic tetrameter · AABB · 7 lines The Birth of Pleasureiambic tetrameter · AABB · 14 lines Fragment: Love the Universe To-Dayiambic pentameter · ABAB · 4 lines Fragment: 'A Gentle Story of Two Lovers Young'iambic pentameter · AABB · 10 lines Fragment: Love's Tender Atmosphereiambic pentameter · 5 lines Fragment: Wedded Soulsiambic pentameter · AABB · 12 lines Fragment: 'Is It That in Some Brighter Sphere'iambic tetrameter · AABB · 8 lines Fragment: Sufficient unto the Dayiambic pentameter · 8 lines Fragment: 'Ye Gentle Visitations of Calm Thought'iambic pentameter · 6 lines Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetryiambic pentameter · 4 lines Fragment: The Sepulchre of Memoryiambic pentameter · AABB · 4 lines Fragment: 'When a Lover Clasps His Fairest'iambic tetrameter · AABBB · 10 lines Fragment: 'Wake the Serpent Not'trochaic tetrameter · 9 lines Fragment: Rainiambic pentameter · AABB · 4 lines Fragment: A Tale Untoldiambic pentameter · ABAB · 4 lines Fragment: To Italytrochaic tetrameter · 6 lines Fragment: Wine of the Fairiesiambic pentameter · 11 lines Fragment: A Roman's Chambertrochaic tetrameter · 9 lines Variation of the Song of the Moon ("Prometheus Unbound", Act 4.)trochaic tetrameter · 14 lines Cancelled Stanza of the Mask of Anarchy (For Which Stanzas 68, 69 Have Been Substituted.)AABB · 4 lines The Sensitive Plant: Part Iiambic pentameter · AABB · 114 lines Part IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 60 lines Part IIIiambic pentameter · AABB · 113 lines Conclusioniambic tetrameter · AABB · 24 lines Cancelled Passageiambic pentameter · AABB · 4 lines A Vision of the Seaanapaestic tetrameter · AABB · 169 lines The Cloudiambic tetrameter · 84 lines To a Skylarktrochaic trimeter · ABABB · 105 lines Ode to Libertyiambic pentameter · 287 lines Cancelled Passage of the Ode to Libertyiambic pentameter · ABABACC · 7 lines To --. 'I fear thy kisses, gentle maiden'common measure · ABAB · 8 lines Arethusaiambic trimeter · 90 lines Song of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers on the Plain of Ennatrochaic tetrameter · ABABCC · 12 lines Hymn of Apolloiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 36 lines Hymn of Paniambic tetrameter · 36 lines The Questioniambic pentameter · ABABABCC · 40 lines The Two Spirits: An AllegoryABACBABC · 48 lines Ode to Naples: Epode 1aiambic pentameter · 22 lines Epode 2Aiambic pentameter · 29 lines Strophe 1iambic pentameter · 14 lines Strophe 2iambic trimeter · 11 lines Antistrophe 1Aiambic pentameter · 14 lines Antistrophe 2Aiambic trimeter · 12 lines Antistrophe 1Biambic pentameter · 14 lines Antistrophe 2Biambic trimeter · 11 lines Epode 1Biambic pentameter · 22 lines Epode 2Biambic pentameter · AABCCBDEFDEFACDGFGHHGIJJIGJJ · 28 lines Autumn: A Dirge22 lines The Waning Mooniambic pentameter · AABB · 6 lines To the Mooniambic pentameter · 8 lines Deathtrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 15 lines Libertyanapaestic tetrameter · ABABB · 21 lines Summer and Winteriambic pentameter · 18 lines The Tower of Famineiambic pentameter · 22 lines An Allegoryiambic pentameter · 15 lines The World's Wandererstrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 12 lines Sonnetiambic pentameter · 14 lines Lines to a Revieweriambic pentameter · AABB · 13 lines Fragment of a Satire on Satireiambic pentameter · AABB · 49 lines Good-Nightiambic tetrameter · ABAB · 12 lines Buona Nottetrochaic pentameter · ABAB · 12 lines Orpheusiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 131 lines Fiordispinaiambic pentameter · AABB · 81 lines Time Long Pastiambic tetrameter · ABABBB · 18 lines Fragment: 'The Viewless and Invisible Consequence'iambic pentameter · 5 lines Fragment: 'Such Hope, as Is the Sick Despair of Good'iambic pentameter · 5 lines Fragment: 'Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was'iambic pentameter · 9 lines Fragment: Milton's Spiritiambic pentameter · 6 lines Fragment: 'Unrisen Splendour of the Brightest Sun'iambic pentameter · 5 lines Fragment: Pater Omnipotensiambic pentameter · 9 lines Fragment: To the Mind of Maniambic pentameter · 17 lines Dirge for the Yeartrochaic tetrameter · ABABCC · 24 lines To Nightiambic tetrameter · 34 lines Timeiambic pentameter · 10 lines Linesiambic trimeter · 14 lines From the Arabic: An Imitationiambic pentameter · ABCBADCD · 16 lines To Emilia Vivianiiambic pentameter · 14 lines The Fugitivesanapaestic dimeter · AABB · 60 lines To --. 'Music, when soft voices die'trochaic tetrameter · 8 lines Songtrochaic tetrameter · ABABCC · 48 lines Mutabilityiambic trimeter · ABABCCC · 21 lines Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleoniambic tetrameter · ABBABBCC · 40 lines Sonnet: Political Greatnessiambic pentameter · 14 lines The Aziolaiambic pentameter · 21 lines A Lamentiambic trimeter · AABAB · 10 lines Remembrancetrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 24 lines To Edward Williamsiambic pentameter · 56 lines To --. 'One word is too often profaned'iambic pentameter · ABABCDCD · 16 lines To --. 'When passion's trance is overpast'iambic tetrameter · 15 lines A Bridal Songtrochaic tetrameter · 18 lines Another Version of the Precedingtrochaic tetrameter · 35 lines Another Version of the Sametrochaic tetrameter · 37 lines Fragments Written for Hellasiambic tetrameter · 36 lines Fragment: 'I Would Not Be a King'iambic tetrameter · 11 lines Ginevraiambic pentameter · AABB · 195 lines The Dirge24 lines Evening: Ponte Al Mare, Pisaiambic pentameter · ABABCC · 24 lines The Boat on the Serchioiambic pentameter · 118 lines Musiciambic pentameter · ABABCC · 22 lines Sonnet to Byroniambic pentameter · 14 lines On Keats, Who Desired That on His Tomb Should Be Inscribediambic pentameter · 7 lines Fragment: 'Methought I Was a Billow in the Crowd'iambic pentameter · 8 lines To-Morrowiambic tetrameter · ABABCC · 6 lines Stanzatrochaic tetrameter · unrhymed · 6 lines Fragment: A Wandereriambic pentameter · ABAB · 4 lines Fragment: 'I Faint, I Perish with My Love!'iambic pentameter · ABABB · 5 lines Fragment: The Lady of the Southiambic pentameter · 5 lines Fragment: 'When Soft Winds and Sunny Skies'trochaic tetrameter · AABB · 7 lines Fragment: 'And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned'iambic pentameter · AABB · 4 lines Fragment: 'The Rude Wind Is Singing'ABAB · 4 lines Fragment: 'Great Spirit'iambic pentameter · 4 lines Fragment: 'O Thou Immortal Deity'iambic pentameter · 5 lines Fragment: The False Laurel and the Trueiambic pentameter · ABABCBCDCDEDE · 13 lines Fragment: Beauty's Halo4 lines Fragment: 'The Death Knell Is Ringing'AABB · 5 lines Fragment: 'I Stood upon a Heaven-Cleaving Turret'iambic pentameter · 9 lines The Zuccaiambic pentameter · ABABABCC · 82 lines The Magnetic Lady to Her Patientiambic tetrameter · ABACBDBCD · 45 lines Lines: 'When the Lamp Is Shattered'iambic tetrameter · ABABCDCD · 32 lines To Jane: The Invitationiambic tetrameter · AABB · 69 lines To Jane: The Recollectioniambic tetrameter · 88 lines The Pine Forest of the Cascine Near Pisacommon measure · ABAB · 116 lines With a Guitar, to Janeiambic tetrameter · 90 lines To Jane: 'The Keen Stars Were Twinkling'24 lines A Dirgeiambic trimeter · ABABCCCB · 8 lines Lines Written in the Bay of Lericiiambic tetrameter · AABB · 52 lines Lines: 'We Meet Not as We Parted'iambic tetrameter · ABABB · 20 lines The Isleiambic tetrameter · 11 lines Fragment: To the Moontrochaic pentameter · 6 lines Epitaphiambic pentameter · AABB · 4 lines

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