Analysis of Sonnet IX. Keen, Fitful Gusts Are
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Keen, fitful gusts are whisp'ring here and there
Among the bushes half leafless, and dry;
The stars look very cold about the sky,
And I have many miles on foot to fare.
Yet feel I little of the cool bleak air,
Or of the dead leaves rustling drearily,
Or of those silver lamps that burn on high,
Or of the distance from home's pleasant lair:
For I am brimfull of the friendliness
That in a little cottage I have found;
Of fair-hair'd Milton's eloquent distress,
And all his love for gentle Lycid drown'd;
Of lovely Laura in her light green dress,
And faithful Petrarch gloriously crown'd.
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Metre | 110111101 0101011001 0111010101 0111011111 1111010111 11011101 1111011111 1101011101 111110100 1001010111 111110001 011111011 1101000111 010110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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