Analysis of Methought I Was A Billow In The Crowd
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
Methought I was a billow in the crowd
Of common men, that stream without a shore,
That ocean which at once is deaf and loud;
That I, a man, stood amid many more
By a wayside..., which the aspect bore
Of some imperial metropolis,
Where mighty shapes—pyramid, dome, and tower--
Gleamed like a pile of crags--
| Scheme | ABABBCDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010001 1101110101 1101111101 1101101101 1011011 1101000100 11011001010 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 310 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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