Analysis of Sonnet. Written Before Re-Read King Lear
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.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011011 11111101 1111101 1111010011 0111010101 0101000101 1111111010 01011111 1100111100 111010101 1101110111 1111000101 1111010010 1111011111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 561 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 8 |
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) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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