Analysis of An Allegory
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I.
A portal as of shadowy adamant
Stands yawning on the highway of the life
Which we all tread, a cavern huge and gaunt;
Around it rages an unceasing strife
Of shadows, like the restless clouds that haunt
The gap of some cleft mountain, lifted high
Into the whirlwinds of the upper sky.
II.
And many pass it by with careless tread,
Not knowing that a shadowy...
Tracks every traveller even to where the dead
Wait peacefully for their companion new;
But others, by more curious humour led,
Pause to examine;—these are very few,
And they learn little there, except to know
That shadows follow them where’er they go.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 01011100100 110101101 1111010101 0111010101 111010111 0111110101 010110101 1 0101111101 11010100 1100100101101 1100110101 1101110011 1101011101 0111010111 11101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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