Analysis of England in 1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)



An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king,--
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,--mud from a muddy spring,--
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow,--
A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,--
An army, which liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield,--
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godless--a book sealed;
A Senate,--Time's worst statute unrepealed,--
Are graves, from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestous day.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111010101 1001111111 1101110101 1011011111 1111110101 1111010101 0101010011 1101101 1101111111 1001011101 010110011 01011101 11110100101 1111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 655
Words 114
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 496
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Modified on March 06, 2023

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is regarded by critics as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. more…

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