For every rhyme, there is a reason.

In Percy Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind, there is a very unique rhyme, rhythm, and form to it. I believe that was done for a reason by Shelley. As her poem is named Ode to the West Wind, when you read it you imagine wind, and that it had blown right through the stanzas making them broken up abnormally, the rhyme being every other line and just the form altogether being tossed around. Also in her poem Shelley states, “by the incantation of this verse, Scatter..”. The word scatter may be an indication for the form chosen for this poem , and it’s verses. This poem isn’t bright and cheery and bouncy as one that rhymes every verse, so by Shelley having the rhyme only every other line, gives it a more dramatic feel, as I’m sure was wanted for this poem.