Analysis of Sonnet XI. On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific -- and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise --
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111000111 0101010101 1101010111 11010010101 1111011111 111101111 1111011101 1111011101 1111110101 1011010111 1110111101 11100100111 1111010101 1001010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 447 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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