Analysis of Stanzas. In A Drear-Nighted December

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



1.
In drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy tree,
Thy branches ne'er remember
Their green felicity:
The north cannot undo them
With a sleety whistle through them;
Nor frozen thawings glue them
From budding at the prime.

2.
In drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubblings ne'er remember
Apollo's summer look;
But with a sweet forgetting,
They stay their crystal fretting,
Never, never petting
About the frozen time.

3.
Ah! would 'twere so with many
A gentle girl and boy!
But were there ever any
Writhed not at passed joy?
The feel of not to feel it,
When there is none to heal it
Nor numbed sense to steel it,
Was never said in rhyme.


Scheme aBcbcddde aBfbfggge achchiiie
Poetic Form
Metre 1 011010 110101 1101010 110100 0110011 1011011 110111 110101 1 011010 110101 111010 010101 1101010 1111010 101010 010101 1 1111110 010101 1011010 11111 0111111 1111111 111111 110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 636
Words 117
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 9, 9, 9
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 170
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 10, 2023

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