Analysis of Sonnet XVI. To Kosciusko

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
It tells me too, that on a happy day,
When some good spirit walks upon the earth,
Thy name with Alfred's, and the great of yore
Gently commingling, gives tremendous birth
To a loud hymn, that sounds far, far away
To where the great God lives for evermore.


Scheme ABBAABBACDEDCE
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 10110111110 11011101001 101110101 0111110101 01110111010 01110011010 1101011101 1111110101 1111010101 111100111 10010010101 1011111101 110111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 628
Words 113
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 489
Words per stanza (avg) 111
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 10, 2023

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