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.

References

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

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