Analysis of Written on a Summer Evening
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
The church bells toll a melancholy round,
Calling the people to some other prayers,
Some other gloominess, more dreadful cares,
More harkening to the sermon's horrid sound.
Surely the mind of man is closely bound
In some blind spell: seeing that each one tears
Himself from fireside joys and Lydian airs,
And converse high of those with glory crowned.
Still, still they toll, and I should feel a damp,
A chill as from a tomb, did I not know
That they are dying like an outburnt lamp, -
That 'tis their sighing, wailing, ere they go
Into oblivion -that fresh flowers will grow,
And many glories of immortal stamp.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101001 1001011101 11011101 11101101 1001111101 0111101111 011101011 0101111101 1111011101 0111011111 111101111 1111010111 010100111011 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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