Analysis of ODE TO MELANCHOLY.
Call it happiness of being sad
Or sadness in a lighter shade,
Pleasure of sorrow and sweet pain,
In battle of love even if one makes gain.
A feeling as seductive as ecstacy,
When one is in love desperately,
Warmth tinged with bit of gloominess,
Silent and obsorbing in its moodiness.
Depressiveness imbued with solemnity,
Capturing melancholy in all its beauty,
When numb heart embraces wounded soul,
Sullen moment, as silent tears roll.
What is poetry sans spice of melancholy!
"Ode to melancholy" that brought Keats glory,
Nostalgic longing turning in to grief,
Even if this emotion last for monent brief.
© K. Radhakrishnan
| Scheme | XXAA BCBB CCDD CCEE A |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001101 11000101 10110011 01011101111 010101011 111011000 111111 1001011 10110100 10010001110 111010101 101011011 11100111100 1110011110 0101010011 10110101111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 632 |
| Words | 123 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on October 03, 2022
Submitted by hemkrish41155 on October 03, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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