Analysis of Sonnet. To A Lady Seen For A Few Moments At Vauxhall
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Time's sea hath been five years at its slow ebb,
Long hours have to and fro let creep the sand,
Since I was tangled in thy beauty's web,
And snared by the ungloving of thine hand.
And yet I never look on midnight sky,
But I behold thine eyes' well memory'd light;
I cannot look upon the rose's dye,
But to thy cheek my soul doth take its flight.
I cannot look on any budding flower,
But my fond ear, in fancy at thy lips
And hearkening for a love-sound, doth devour
Its sweets in the wrong sense: -- Thou dost eclipse
Every delight with sweet remembering,
And grief unto my darling joys dost bring.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet (93%) |
Metre | 1111111111 11011011101 111100111 01101111 011101111 110111111 1101010101 1111111111 11011101010 1111010111 0110111010 1100111101 10001110100 0110110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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