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
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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