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.


Scheme ABBAABCADEFEGG
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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