Analysis of Keats

Henry Van Dyke 1852 (Germantown, Pennsylvania) – 1933 (Princeton, New Jersey)



The melancholy gift Aurora gained
From Jove, that her sad lover should not see
The face of death, no goddess asked for thee,
My Keats! But when the crimson blood-drop stained
Thy pillow, thou didst read the fate ordained, --
Brief life, wild love, a flight of poesy!
And then, -- a shadow fell on Italy:
Thy star went down before its brightness waned,

Yet thou hast won the gift Tithonus missed:
Never to feel the pain of growing old,
Nor lose the blissful sight of beauty's truth,
But with the ardent lips that music kissed
To breathe thy song, and, ere thy heart grew cold,
Become the Poet of Immortal Youth.


Scheme ABBAABBA CDECDE
Poetic Form Petrarchan sonnet 
Metre 010010101 1110110111 0111110111 1111010111 1101110101 11110111 010111100 1111011101 11110111 1011011101 110101111 1101011101 1111011111 0101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 609
Words 114
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 237
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henry Van Dyke

Henry Jackson van Dyke was an American author, educator, and clergyman. more…

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