Analysis of Sonnet X. To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven -- to breathe a prayer
Full in the smile of the blue firmament.
Who is more happy, when, with heart's content,
Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair
Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair
And gentle tale of love and languishment?
Returning home at evening, with an ear
Catching the notes of Philomel,-- an eye
Watching the sailing cloudlet's bright career,
He mourns that day so soon has glided by:
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
That falls through the clear ether silently.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 1101110101 01011101101 10011011 1111011110 0111011101 110101001 01011101 0101110111 10011111 100101101 1111111101 1110101111 1110110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 458 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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