each of the seven parts of "ode to the west wind" contains five stanzas-four three-line stanzas and All metered in iambic pentameter.the rhyme scheme in each part follows a pattern known as terza Rima, The three-line rhyme scheme employed by Dante in his divine comedy.in the three-line terza Rima stanza, the first and third lines RES Then the end sound of that middle line is employed as the rhyme for the first and third lines in the next stanza.the final couplet rhymes with the mi Ddle line of the last three-line stanza.thus each of the seven parts of "ode to the west wind" follows this scheme: ABA BCB CDC dee
the wispy, fluid terza Rima of "ode to the west wind" finds Shelley taking a long thematic leap beyond the scope of "hymn to "and incorporating his own art into his meditation on beauty and the natural world.shelley invokes the wind magically, Describing its power and its role as both "destroyer and pre server," and asks the wind to sweep him out of his torpor "as a wave, a LEEP In the fifth section, the poet then takes a remarkable turn, transforming the wind into a metaphor for his own art, The expressive capacity that drives "dead thoughts" like "withered leaves" over the universe, to "quicken a new birth" To quicken the coming of the spring.here the spring season is a metaphor for a "spring" of human consciousness, imagination, le Or morality-all the things Shelley hoped his art could help to bring about in the human mind. Shelley asks the wind to be his spirit, And in the same movement he makes it his metaphorical spirit, his poetic faculty, which will play him like a musical instrument, The way the wind strums the leaves of the trees.the thematic implication is significant: whereas the older generation of romantic poets view As a source of truth and authentic experience, The younger generation largely viewed nature as a source of beauty and aesthetic experience.in this poem, Shelley explicitly links nature with art by finding powerful natural metaphors with which to express his ideas about the power, import, quas