Analysis of Faery Songs
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
I.
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more! oh, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core.
Dry your eyes! oh, dry your eyes!
For I was taught in Paradise
To ease my breast of melodies,--
Shed no tear.
Overhead! look overhead!
'Mong the blossoms white and red--
Look up, look up! I flutter now
On this fresh pomegranate bough.
See me! 'tis this silvery bill
Ever cures the good man's ill.
Shed no tear! oh, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Adieu, adieu -- I fly -- adieu!
I vanish in the heaven’s blue,--
Adieu, adieu!
II.
Ah! woe is me! poor silver-wing!
That I must chant thy lady's dirge,
And death to this fair haunt of spring,
Of melody, and streams of flowery verge,--
Poor silver-wing! ah! woe is me!
That I must see
These blossoms snow upon thy lady's pall!
Go, pretty page! and in her ear
Whisper that the hour is near!
Softly tell her not to fear
Such calm favonian burial!
Go, pretty page! and soothly tell,--
The blossoms hang by a melting spell,
And fall they must, ere a star wink thrice
Upon her closed eyes,
That now in vain are weeping their last tears,
At sweet life leaving, and these arbours green,--
Rich dowry from the Spirit of the Spheres,
Alas! poor Queen!
Scheme | aBCddefxb gghhiiBCjjj aklklmmxxccxnnfexoxo |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1 1111111 010110101 1111111 11100111 1111111 1111010 11111100 111 1011101 1010101 11111101 1110101 11111001 1010111 1111111 010110101 01011101 11000101 0101 1 11111101 11111101 01111111 11000111001 11011111 1111 1101011101 11010001 10101011 1010111 111100 1101011 010110101 011110111 01011 1101110111 111100111 1101010101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,224 |
Words | 242 |
Sentences | 36 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 11, 20 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 312 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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