Analysis of Life Rounded With Sleep
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
The babe is at peace within the womb;
The corpse is at rest within the tomb:
We begin in what we end.
| Scheme | AAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 011110101 011110101 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 107 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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