Analysis of To Haydon

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speak
Definitively of these mighty things;
Forgive me, that I have not eagle's wings,
That what I want I know not where to seek,
And think that I would not be over-meek,
In rolling out upfollowed thunderings,
Even to the steep of Heliconian springs,
Were I of ample strength for such a freak.
Think, too, that all these numbers should be thine;
Whose else? In this who touch thy vesture's hem?
For, when men stared at what was most divine
With brainless idiotism and o'erwise phlegm,
Thou hadst beheld the full Hesperian shine
Of their star in the east, and gone to worship them!


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Poetic Form
Metre 1001111101 0100011101 0111111101 1111111111 0111111101 010111 10101111 0111011101 1111110111 110111111 1111111101 1101011 1110111 111001011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 607
Words 112
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 481
Words per stanza (avg) 110
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 10, 2023

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