Analysis of O Blush Not So!
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
O BLUSH not so! O blush not so!
Or I shall think you knowing;
And if you smile the blushing while,
Then maidenheads are going.
There's a blush for want, and a blush for shan't,
And a blush for having done it;
There's a blush for thought, and a blush for nought,
And a blush for just begun it.
O sigh not so! O sigh not so!
For it sounds of Eve's sweet pippin;
By these loosen'd lips you have tasted the pips
And fought in an amorous nipping.
Will you play once more at nice-cut-core,
For it only will last our youth out,
And we have the prime of the kissing time,
We have not one sweet tooth out.
There's a sigh for aye, and a sigh for nay,
And a sigh for "I can't bear it!"
O what can be done, shall we stay or run?
O cut the sweet apple and share it!
Scheme | ABXB CDCD AXXB XEXE XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 11111111 1111110 01110101 11110 10111001111 00111011 1011100111 00111011 11111111 11111110 11101111001 010110010 111111111 1110111011 0110110101 1111111 1011100111 00111111 1111111111 110110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 801 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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