Analysis of Sonnet. The Human Seasons
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honied cud of youthful thought he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness-to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
| Scheme | ABABCDEFGHGHAI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010101 1111000111 1111011101 1011011101 1111011 111110111 110011101 1101010101 1110110111 111010111 1101001111 110101011 111101111 11110111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 568 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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