Analysis of Passage Of The Apennines
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Listen, listen, Mary mine,
To the whisper of the Apennine,
It bursts on the roof like the thunder’s roar,
Or like the sea on a northern shore,
Heard in its raging ebb and flow
By the captives pent in the cave below.
The Apennine in the light of day
Is a mighty mountain dim and gray,
Which between the earth and sky doth lay;
But when night comes, a chaos dread
On the dim starlight then is spread,
And the Apennine walks abroad with the storm,
Shrouding...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 10101010 1110110101 110110101 10110101 1010100101 01000111 101010101 101010111 11110101 1011111 0010101101 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 455 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 355 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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