This is an analysis of Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Alas! this is not what I thought life was.
I knew that there were crimes and evil men,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabababXb
- Stanza lengths: 9,
- Metre: 0100111111 1111011101 10011101101 01110010101 0111111001 0101011 1101110101 0110011111 0111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
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