Fragment: May the Limner by Percy Bysshe Shelley
May is personified as painting in bright colours the landscape sketched by April, who is called her sweet twin.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Nature Poetry, Seasonal Poetry · 20 words
First lines
When May is painting with her colours gay / The landscape sketched by April her sweet twin...
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The two lines present a changing landscape through the image of sketching and painting.
- Seasonal Poetry — April's sketch and May's bright colours represent successive stages of spring.
Tags
spring · landscape · painting · personification
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Seasonal Poetry
- Length: 20 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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