Analysis of To Fanny
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
I cry your mercy—pity—love!—aye, love!
Merciful love that tantalizes not,
One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love,
Unmasked, and being seen—without a blot!
O! let me have thee whole,—all—all—be mine!
That shape, that fairness, that sweet minor zest
Of love, your kiss,—those hands, those eyes divine,
That warm, white, lucent, million-pleasured breast,—
Yourself—your soul—in pity give me all,
Withhold no atom's atom or I die,
Or living on, perhaps, your wretched thrall,
Forget, in the mist of idle misery,
Life's purposes,—the palate of my mind
Losing its gust, and my ambition blind!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010111 100111001 1110100101 0101010101 1111111111 1111011101 1111111101 111101011 0111010111 011110111 1101011101 01001110100 1100010111 1011010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 457 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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