Analysis of Sonnet IV. How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time!
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
How many bards gild the lapses of time!
A few of them have ever been the food
Of my delighted fancy,—I could brood
Over their beauties, earthly, or sublime:
And often, when I sit me down to rhyme,
These will in throngs before my mind intrude:
But no confusion, no disturbance rude
Do they occasion; 'tis a pleasing chime.
So the unnumbered sounds that evening store;
The songs of birds—the whispering of the leaves—
The voice of waters—the great bell that heaves
With solemn sound,—and thousand others more,
That distance of recognizance bereaves,
Makes pleasing music, and not wild uproar.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101011 0111110101 1101010111 1011010101 0101111111 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 10111101 01110100101 0111001111 1101010101 110101001 110100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 596 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 468 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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