Analysis of Sonnet To Homer
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Standing aloof in giant ignorance,
Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,
As one who sits ashore and longs perchance
To visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.
So thou wast blind; -- but then the veil was rent,
For Jove uncurtain'd Heaven to let thee live,
And Neptune made for thee a spumy tent,
And Pan made sing for thee his forest-hive;
Aye on the shores of darkness there is light,
And precipices show untrodden green
There is a budding morrow in the midnight,
There is a triple sight in blindness keen;
Such seeing hadst thou, as it once befel
To Dian, Queen of Earth, and Heaven, and Hell.
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Metre | 1001010100 1111010010 1111010101 1101010011 1111110111 111101111 010111011 0111111101 1101110111 01111 1101010001 1101010101 110111111 11011101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 582 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 458 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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