Analysis of Sonnet. Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Blue! 'Tis the life of heaven,--the domain
Of Cynthia,--the wide palace of the sun,--
The tent of Hesperus, and all his train,--
The bosomer of clouds, gold, gray, and dun.
Blue! 'Tis the life of waters: -- Ocean
And all its vassal streams, pools numberless,
May rage, and foam, and fret, but never can
Subside, if not to dark-blue nativeness.
Blue! Gentle cousin of the forest-green,
Married to green in all the sweetest flowers,--
Forget-me-not,--the Blue bell,--and, that Queen
Of secrecy, the Violet: what strange powers
Hast thou, as a mere shadow! But how great,
When in an Eye thou art alive with fate!
Scheme | ABABBCDCECECFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110001 11000110101 01110111 01111101 110111010 01110111 1101011101 01111111 1101010101 10110101010 0111011011 110001001110 111011111 1011110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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