Analysis of To John Hamilton Reynolds
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
O that a week could be an age, and we
Felt parting and warm meeting every week,
Then one poor year a thousand years would be,
The flush of welcome ever on the cheek:
So could we live long life in little space,
So time itself would be annihilate,
So a day's journey in oblivious haze
To serve ourjoys would lengthen and dilate.
O to arrive each Monday morn from Ind!
To land each Tuesday from the rich Levant!
In little time a host of joys to bind,
And keep our souls in one eternal pant!
This morn, my friend, and yester-evening taught
Me how to harbour such a happy thought.
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Metre | 1101111101 11001101001 1111010111 0111010101 1111110101 110111010 10110001001 111110001 1101110111 1111010101 0101011111 01101010101 111101101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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