Analyzing Word Choice
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What is the effect of the words speed, gleam, and
quiver?
We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and
quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly!-yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost for ever
-"Mutability,"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
What idea about humans is expressed through the
words?