Analysis of The Deserts Of Dim Sleep
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I went into the deserts of dim sleep--
That world which, like an unknown wilderness,
Bounds this with its recesses wide and deep--
Scheme | ABA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Terza rima Tercet |
Metre | 1101010111 1111101100 1111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 136 |
Words | 25 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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