Analysis of Sonnet On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
O GOLDEN tongued Romance, with serene lute!
Fair plumed Syren, Queen of far-away!
Leave melodizing on this wintry day,
Shut up thine olden pages, and be mute:
Adieu! for, once again, the fierce dispute
Betwixt damnation and impassion 'd clay
Must I burn through; once more humbly assay
The bitter-sweet of this Shakespearian fruit:
Chief Poet! and ye clouds of Albion,
Begetters of our deep eternal theme!
When through the old oak Forest I am gone,
Let me not wander in a barren dream,
But, when I am consumed in the fire,
Give me new Phoenix wings to fly at my desire.
| Scheme | ABBAABCADEFEGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011011 11111101 1111101 1111010011 0111010101 01010001011 1111111010 01011111 1100111100 111010101 1101110111 1111000101 1111010010 1111011111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 565 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 445 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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