Question

Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude

by Percy Bysshe Shelley



My thoughts arise and fade in solitude,
The verse that would invest them melts away
Like moonlight in the heaven of spreading day:
How beautiful they were, how firm they stood,
Flecking the starry sky like woven pearl!

Question
What is compared in this verse?

Answer options with 4 options
1.
the starry sky and moonlight

2.
thoughts and solitude

3.
thoughts and woven pearls

4.
moonlight and the day

Answer 1

3. thoughts and woven pearls — the line "flecking the starry sky like woven pearl" compares the speaker's thoughts to woven pearls.