Analysis of Keats

Lizette Woodworth Reese 1856 (Waverly) – 1935



An English lad, who, reading in a book,
A ponderous, leathern thing set on his knee,
Saw the broad violet of the Egean Sea
Lap at his feet as it were village brook.
Wide was the east; the gusts of morning shook;
Immortal laughter beat along that shore;
Pan, crouching in the reeds, piped as of yore;
The gods came down and thundered from that book.
He lifted his sad eyes; his London street
Swarmed in the sun, and strove to make him heed;
Boys spun their tops, shouting and fair of cheek:
But, still, that violet lapping at his feet,—
An English lad had he sat down to read;
But he rose up and knew himself a Greek.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1101110001 0100111111 1011001011 1111110101 1101011101 0101010111 1100011111 0111010111 1101111101 1001011111 1111100111 11110010111 1101111111 1111010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 613
Words 122
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 474
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Lizette Woodworth Reese

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