Analysis of John Keats in Hampstead
John Keats in Hampstead
It was Christmas Eve
with mounds of snow on grayish lanes
and red roofs of dull Hampstead
hanging still and unmoved in dark English noon.
Sky was fat with clouds,
all set to dart the December flakes
on the sleepy impious town.
Seated in his hearth was John Keats
trying to brood and burst out verses sweet.
Sick Tom lay nearby , alone, breathing hard
and spurting red cough in thoughtless trance.
The evening draughts sneaked through
the edges of closed windows like death’s harbinger
with a whistling tone rustling papers and candles.
‘What thinks little John?’ mused
the frail Tom, ‘Was it fear or boredom?
Why is he sober?’
He remembered words once
His mother spoke,
‘John has two lives
A mundane
social one, and an ideal fecund dream.
He is unfit for filthy earth,
as only heavenly ears can absorb his strains’.
The clock now ticked loud
And John rose like a winter bird
from ebony old
to peer into sticky icicles
of distant bony trees.
Human life too are icicles on thorny earth.
Fate, like sun would water them soon….
Scheme | A XBACXXX XXXXXDEXXDXXXXXFBXXXEXFC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 11101 11111101 011111 10100101101 11111 111100101 10100101 10011111 1011011101 1111101101 010110101 010111 010111011100 101011010010 111011 011111110 11110 101011 1101 1111 001 101010111 11011101 110100110111 01111 01110101 11001 110110100 110101 101111001101 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,073 |
Words | 206 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 24 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 277 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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