Analysis of Character Of Charles Brown
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
I.
He is to weet a melancholy carle:
Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hair
As hath the seeded thistle when in parle
It holds the Zephyr, ere it sendeth fair
Its light balloons into the summer air;
Therto his beard had not begun to bloom,
No brush had touch'd his chin or razor sheer;
No care had touch'd his cheek with mortal doom,
But new he was and bright as scarf from Persian loom.
II.
Ne cared he for wine, or half-and-half;
Ne cared he for fish or flesh or fowl,
And sauces held he worthless as the chaff,
He 'sdeigned the swine-head at the wassail-bowl;
Ne with lewd ribbalds sat he cheek by jowl,
Ne with sly Lemans in the scorner's chair;
But after water-brooks this Pilgrim's soul
Panted, and all his food was woodland air
Though he would oft-times feast on gilliflowers rare.
III.
The slang of cities in no wise he knew,
Tipping the wink to him was heathen Greek;
He sipp'd no olden Tom or ruin blue,
Or nantz or cherry-brandy drank full meek
By many a damsel hoarse and rouge of cheek;
Nor did he know each aged watchman's beat,
Nor in obscured purlieus would he seek
For curled Jewesses with ankles neat,
Who as they walk abroad make tinkling with their feet.
Scheme | ABCBCCDXDD AEFEGFCGCC AHIHIIJIJJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1 1111010010 1001110111 1101010101 110101111 1101010101 111110111 1111111101 1111111101 111101111101 1 111111101 111111111 0101110101 110111011 111111111 111100011 1101011101 100111111 111111111 1 0111001111 1001111101 1111011101 1111010111 11001010111 11111111 10011111 1111101 1111011100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,156 |
Words | 223 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 305 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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