Analysis of Sonnet: Oh! How I Love, On A Fair Summer's Eve
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Oh! how I love, on a fair summer's eve,
When streams of light pour down the golden west,
And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest
The silver clouds, far -- far away to leave
All meaner thoughts, and take a sweet reprieve
From little cares; to find, with easy quest,
A fragrant wild, with Nature's beauty drest,
And there into delight my soul deceive.
There warm my breast with patriotic lore,
Musing on Milton's fate -- on Sydney's bier --
Till their stern forms before my mind arise:
Perhaps on wing of Poesy upsoar,
Full often dropping a delicious tear,
When some melodious sorrow spells mine eyes.
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Metre | 1111101101 1111110101 0101010101 0101110111 1101010101 1101111101 0101110101 0101011101 111110101 101111101 1111011101 0111111 1101000101 11010010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 465 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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