Analysis of Fragment. Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



'Under the flag
Of each his faction, they to battle bring
Their embryo atoms.' ~ Milton.

Welcome joy, and welcome sorrow,
Lethe's weed and Hermes' feather;
Come to-day, and come to-morrow,
I do love you both together!
I love to mark sad faces in fair weather;
And hear a merry laugh amid the thunder;
Fair and foul I love together.
Meadows sweet where flames are under,
And a giggle at a wonder;
Visage sage at pantomine;
Funeral, and steeple-chime;
Infant playing with a skull;
Morning fair, and shipwreck'd hull;
Nightshade with the woodbine kissing;
Serpents in red roses hissing;
Cleopatra regal-dress'd
With the aspic at her breast;
Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad;
Muses bright and muses pale;
Sombre Saturn, Momus hale;--
Laugh and sigh, and laugh again;
Oh the sweetness of the pain!
Muses bright, and muses pale,
Bare your faces of the veil;
Let me see; and let me write
Of the day, and of the night -
Both together: - let me slake
All my thirst for sweet heart-ache!
Let my bower be of yew,
Interwreath'd with myrtles new;
Pines and lime-trees full in bloom,
And my couch a low grass-tomb.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1001 1111011101 1101010 10101010 1101010 11101110 11111010 11111100110 01010101010 10111010 1111110 00101010 10111 1000101 1010101 101011 110110 10011010 010101 101101 1010101 1010101 1010101 11011 1010101 1010101 1010101 1110101 1110111 1010101 1010111 1111111 1110111 11101 1011101 0110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,125
Words 201
Sentences 8
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 33
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 431
Words per stanza (avg) 99
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 04, 2023

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