Cancelled Opening of the Triumph of Life
Out of the eastern shadow of the Earth,Amid the clouds upon its margin grayScattered by Night to swathe in its bright birth
In gold and fleecy snow the infant Day,The glorious Sun arose: beneath his light,The earth and all...
Words in this poem
- amid prep.
- In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. [OE. amidde, amiddes, on midden, AS. on middan, in the middle, fr. midde the middle. The s is an adverbial ending, originally marking the genitive; the t is a la]
- fleecy a.
- Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.
- glorious a.
- Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. [OF. glorios, glorious, F. glorieux, fr. L. gloriosus. See Glory, n.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Cancelled Opening of the Triumph of Life is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1, Project Gutenberg ebook #4797; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
Cancelled Opening of the Triumph of Life is 6 lines in 2 stanzas of 3 lines each. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 93%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 9.0 syllables.
See other poems in iambic pentameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 A-A earthA · gray · birthA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Out of the eastern shadow of the Earth, | 10 | ···/˘/···· |
| Amid the clouds upon its margin gray | 10 | ˘/·····/˘· |
| Scattered by Night to swathe in its bright birth | 10 | /˘········ |
| In gold and fleecy snow the infant Day, | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| The glorious Sun arose: beneath his light, | 10 | ·/˘·˘/···· |
| The earth and all... | 4 | ···· |
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