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
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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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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