Analysis of Sonnet. Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer's Tale Of 'The Floure And The Lefe'
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
This pleasant tale is like a little copse:
The honied lines do freshly interlace,
To keep the reader in so sweet a place,
So that he here and there full hearted stops;
And oftentimes he feels the dewy drops
Come cool and suddenly against his face,
And by the wandering melody may trace
Which way the tender-legged linnet hops.
Oh! What a power hath white simplicity!
What mighty power has this gentle story!
I, that for ever feel athirst for glory,
Could at this moment be content to lie
Meekly upon the grass, as those whose sobbings
Were heard of none beside the mournful robbins.
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Metre | 1101110101 01111001 1101001101 1111011101 010110101 1101000111 01010010011 1101010101 11010110100 11010111010 1111011110 1111011011 1001011111 01110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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