Analysis of On Death
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
1.
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasures as a vision seem,
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.
2.
How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.
| Scheme | ABCBC AXDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1 1111111101 0111110101 0101010101 0111010111 1 1111111111 0101111101 1101111101 1101111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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