Analysis of On Receiving A Laurel Crown From Leigh Hunt
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
MINUTES are flying swiftly, and as yet
Nothing unearthly has enticed my brain
Into a delphic Labyrinth I would fain
Catch an unmortal thought to pay the debt
I owe to the kind Poet who has set
Upon my ambitious head a glorious gain.
Two bending laurel Sprigs 'tis nearly pain
To be conscious of such a Coronet.
Still time is fleeting, and no dream arises
Gorgeous as I would have it only I see
A Trampling down of what the world most prizes
Turbans and Crowns, and blank regality;
And then I run into most wild surmises
Of all the many glories that may be.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010011 1001010111 0101010111 11111101 1110110111 011010101001 1101011101 1110110101 11110011010 10111111011 01011101110 1001011 01110111010 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 551 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 443 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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