Analysis of To Some Ladies
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
What though while the wonders of nature exploring,
I cannot your light, mazy footsteps attend;
Nor listen to accents, that almost adoring,
Bless Cynthia's face, the enthusiast’s friend:
Yet over the steep, whence the mountain stream rushes,
With you, kindest friends, in idea I rove;
Mark the clear tumbling crystal, its passionate gushes,
Its spray that the wild flower kindly bedews.
Why linger you so, the wild labyrinth strolling?
Why breathless, unable your bliss to declare?
Ah! you list to the nightingale’s tender condoling,
Responsive to sylphs, in the moon beamy air.
'Tis morn, and the flowers with dew are yet drooping,
I see you are treading the verge of the sea:
And now! ah, I see it--you just now are stooping
To pick up the keep-sake intended for me.
If a cherub, on pinions of silver descending,
Had brought me a gem from the fret-work of heaven;
And smiles, with his star-cheering voice sweetly blending,
The blessings of Tighe had melodiously given;
It had not created a warmer emotion
Than the present, fair nymphs, I was blest with from you
Than the shell, from the bright golden sands of the ocean
Which the emerald waves at your feet gladly threw.
For, indeed, 'tis a sweet and peculiar pleasure,
(And blissful is he who such happiness finds,)
To possess but a span of the hour of leisure,
In elegant, pure, and aerial minds.
Scheme | ABAB CXXC ADAD AEAE AFAF FGFG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (86%) |
Metre | 111010110010 110111101 11011011010 1100100101 110011010110 11101001011 10110010110010 1110110101 11011011010 11001011101 111101101 0101100111 110010111110 11111001101 011111111110 11101101011 101011110010 111011011110 011111011010 010111110 111010010010 101011111111 1011011011010 10101111101 101101001010 01011111001 1011011010110 0100101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,361 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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