Analysis of Happy Is England! I Could Be Content

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



Happy is England! I could be content
To see no other verdure than its own;
To feel no other breezes than are blown
Through its tall woods with high romances blent;
Yet do I sometimes feel a languishment
For skies Italian, and an inward groan
To sit upon an Alp as on a throne,
And half forget what world or worldling meant.
Happy is England, sweet her artless daughters;
Enough their simple loveliness for me,
Enough their whitest arms in silence clinging;
Yet do I often warmly burn to see
Beauties of deeper glance, and hear their singing,
And float with them about the summer waters.


Scheme ABBAABBACDEDEC
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011110 111101111 1111010111 1111110101 11101101 1101001101 1101111101 010111111 1011010110 01110111 01110101010 1111010111 10110101110 01110101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 581
Words 108
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 468
Words per stanza (avg) 106
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 30, 2023

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