Analysis of Teignmouth

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



I.
Here all the summer could I stay,
For there's Bishop's teign
And King's teign
And Coomb at the clear Teign head--
Where close by the stream
You may have your cream
All spread upon barley bread.

II.
There's Arch Brook
And there's Larch Brook
Both turning many a mill,
And cooling the drouth
Of the salmon's mouth
And fattening his silver gill.

III.
There is Wild wood,
A Mild hood
To the sheep on the lea o' the down,
Where the golden furze,
With its green, thin spurs,
Doth catch at the maiden's gown.

IV.
There is Newton Marsh
With its spear grass harsh--
A pleasant summer level
Where the maidens sweet
Of the Market Street
Do meet in the dusk to revel.

V.
There's the Barton rich
With dyke and ditch
And hedge for the thrush to live in,
And the hollow tree
For the buzzing bee
And a bank for the wasp to hive in.

VI.
And O, and O
The daisies blow
And the primroses are waken'd,
And violets white
Sit in silver plight,
And the green bud's as long as the spike end.

VII.
Then who would go
Into dark Soho,
And chatter with dack'd-hair'd critics,
When he can stay
For the new-mown hay,
And startle the dappled Prickets?


Scheme ABCCDEED AFFGHHG AIICJJC KLLMNNM KOOCPPC AQQBRRX KQQJBBJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (44%)
Etheree  (32%)
Metre 1 11010111 11101 011 0110111 11101 11111 1101101 1 111 0111 1101001 01001 1011 01001101 1 1111 011 101101101 10101 11111 111011 1 11101 11111 0101010 10101 10101 11001110 1 10101 1101 01101110 00101 10101 001101110 1 0101 0101 001011 01001 10101 0011111011 1 1111 01110 01011110 1111 10111 010011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,080
Words 216
Sentences 15
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 8, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7
Lines Amount 50
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 123
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 06, 2023

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