Analysis of John's Ode



If Keats was right,
 and beauty is truth...

Then what lies of this world
 have we made

(University Of Pennsylvania: October, 2013)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 1111 01011 111111 111 01001010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 126
Words 22
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 15, 2016

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