Analysis of To Ailsa Rock
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Hearken, thou craggy ocean-pyramid,
Give answer by thy voice—the sea-fowls' screams!
When were thy shoulders mantled in huge streams?
When from the sun was thy broad forehead hid?
How long is't since the mighty Power bid
Thee heave to airy sleep from fathom dreams—
Sleep in the lap of thunder or sunbeams—
Or when grey clouds are thy cold coverlid!
Thou answer'st not; for thou art dead asleep.
Thy life is but two dead eternities,
The last in air, the former in the deep!
First with the whales, last with the eagle-skies!
Drowned wast thou till an earthquake made thee steep,
Another cannot wake thy giant-size!
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Metre | 111010100 1101110111 101101011 1101111101 11111010101 1111011101 100111011 11111111 11011111101 1111111 0101010001 1101110101 111111111 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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