Wind blowing the stanzas

In Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" there is not only the description of the wind in the poem, but it feels as though the wind is actually present for the reader. The poem jumps quickly and presents many different images. Shelley does this by writing very short, three or even two line stanzas. The small number of lines in each stanza gives each small chunk of writing a sort of lightness. It is as if Shelley wanted the wind to be able to blow the reader through the poem, bringing with him or her each pervious stanza. If that were the case, he would have to ensure that no stanza were to heavy for the wind to blow along.
I also really liked the image or idea that Shelley presents when he offers the hypothetical reality in which he is a "dead leaf" (43). It contorts the relationship between poet and poem by giving the poem and the wind its own course, separate from the poet's control. He relinquishes his ownership over the poem and the various ways it can be interpreted when he presents himself as a "wave to pant beneath thy power" (45). The power he refers to could be seen as the power of the wind that carries the dead leaf in whatever direction it is blowing, and then discards the leaf in a new place without any concern for the leaf's desires. However, it also seems to suit the poem that Shelley is some how beneath his own poem. As the same line ends on a discontinued thought, and then picks back up with the start of the next stanza, there is the sense that the poem is speaking to itself. It is almost as if the stanzas are somehow interconnected in a way that even Shelley did not necessarily intend, but that they somehow work together to create something larger than Shelley created when he put the words on the page. All of this functions nicely within the idea that the wind blows things in all directions, reshuffling the natural world, and recreating the visual effect of an environment. This poem works in a similar way in that the stanzas seem to all have had their own place, and then the wind came and blew them all together onto the page.