To a Skylark

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Percy Bysshe Shelley completed the poem entitled "To a Skylark" in late June 1820.^[1]

It was written near Livorno, Italy. It was inspired by an evening walk in the country with Mary Shelley, and describes the appearance and song of a skylark they come upon. The poem uses a unique five line stanza with a three beat line except for the fifth line, which doubles the number beats of the other lines, and it has a rhyme scheme that is consistently 'abab.' However, the fifth line does not follow the rhyme scheme of the first four lines but varies the line that it rhymes with.

[edit] References

1. ^ Sandy, Mark (2002-03-21). "To a Skylark". The Literary Encyclopedia.. Retrieved on 2006-01-09.