Analysis of Sonnet. A Dream, After Reading Dante's Episode Of Paulo And Francesca
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
As Hermes once took to his feathers light,
When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept,
So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright
So played, so charmed, so conquered, so bereft
The dragon-world of all its hundred eyes;
And seeing it asleep, so fled away--
Not to pure Ida with its snow-cold skies,
Nor unto Tempe, where Jove grieved a day;
But to that second circle of sad Hell,
Where in the gust, the whirlwind, and the flaw
Of rain and hail-stones, lovers need not tell
Their sorrows. Pale were the sweet lips I saw,
Pale were the lips I kissed, and fair the form
I floated with, about that melancholy storm.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 111010101 1101011101 1111110101 0101111101 0101011101 1111011111 1101011101 1111010111 100101001 1101110111 1101001111 1001110101 11010111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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