Analysis of Where's the Poet?

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



Where's the Poet? show him! show him,
Muses nine! that I may know him.
'Tis the man who with a man
Is an equal, be he King,
Or poorest of the beggar-clan
Or any other wonderous thing
A man may be 'twixt ape and Plato;
'Tis the man who with a bird,
Wren or Eagle, finds his way to
All its instincts; he hath heard
The Lion's roaring, and can tell
What his horny throat expresseth,
And to him the Tiger's yell
Come articulate and presseth
Or his ear like mother-tongue.


Scheme AABCBCDEFEGHGHI
Poetic Form
Metre 10101111 10111111 1011101 1110111 11010101 1101011 011111010 1011101 11101111 1110111 01010011 111011 0110101 101001 1111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 461
Words 93
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 355
Words per stanza (avg) 91
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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