Analysis of A Roman's Chamber
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
In the cave which wild weeds cover
Wait for thine aethereal lover;
For the pallid moon is waning,
O'er the spiral cypress hanging
And the moon no cloud is staining.
II.
It was once a Roman’s chamber,
Where he kept his darkest revels,
And the wild weeds twine and clamber;
It was then a chasm for devils.
Scheme | ABBCCC ABDBD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 00111110 111110 10101110 100101010 00111110 1 11101010 11111010 00111010 111010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 306 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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