Analysis of Bright Star
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.
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Metre | 111101111 101110101 0101010101 11010101 010101111 11111101 1101011101 1101010001 111111 1011111001 1111011101 0111000101 1111010101 0111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 657 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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