Analysis of Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 (Horsham) – 1822 (Lerici)
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
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Metre | 11010011011 111101111 1001011101 1101010111 0101011101 1111011101 1101111101 0111100111 0101001101 1111111 1111110001 1001011001 1101011001 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 491 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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