Analysis of To G.A.W.
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance!
In what diviner moments of the day
Art thou most lovely?—when gone far astray
Into the labyrinths of sweet utterance,
Or when serenely wandering in a trance
Of sober thought? Or when starting away,
With careless robe to meet the morning ray,
Thou sparest the flowers in thy mazy dance?
Haply 'tis when thy ruby lips part sweetly,
And so remain, because thou listenest:
But thou to please wert nurtured so completely
That I can never tell what mood is best;
I shall as soon pronounce which Grace more neatly
Trips it before Apollo than the rest.
Scheme | ABBCABBADBDEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101011 01110101 1111011101 010111100 110100100001 1101111001 1101110101 110100111 1111101110 01010111 11111101010 1111011111 11110111110 1101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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