Analysis of Lines

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)




      UNFELT unheard, unseen,
      I've left my little queen,
Her languid arms in silver slumber lying:
      Ah! through their nestling touch,
      Who---who could tell how much
There is for madness---cruel, or complying?

Those faery lids how sleek!
      Those lips how moist!---they speak,
In ripest quiet, shadows of sweet sounds:
      Into my fancy's ear
      Melting a burden dear,
How "Love doth know no fulness, nor no bounds."

True!---tender monitors!
      I bend unto your laws:
This sweetest day for dalliance was born!
      So, without more ado,
      I'll feel my heaven anew,
For all the blushing of the hasty morn.


Scheme AABCCB DDEXXE XXFGGF
Poetic Form
Metre 10101 111101 01010101010 111101 111111 11110101010 11111 111111 01101111 01111 100101 111111111 110100 111011 1101110011 101101 1111001 1101010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 639
Words 101
Sentences 11
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 146
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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