Analysis of Spenserian Stanza. Written At The Close Of Canto II, Book V, Of

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



In after-time, a sage of mickle lore
Yclep'd Typographus, the Giant took,
And did refit his limbs as heretofore,
And made him read in many a learned book,
And into many a lively legend look;
Thereby in goodly themes so training him,
That all his brutishness he quite forsook,
When, meeting Artegall and Talus grim,
The one he struck stone-blind, the other's eyes wox dim.


Scheme ABABBCBCC
Poetic Form Spenserian stanza  (89%)
Nonet (22%)
Metre 0101011101 110101 010111101 0111010011 00110010101 1101011101 11111101 1101011 011111010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 372
Words 67
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 291
Words per stanza (avg) 65
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 21, 2023

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