Analysis of Written Under a Portrait of Keats
John Boyle O'Reilly 1844 (Dowth) – 1890 (Boston)
A GOD-LIKE face, with human love and will
And tender fancy traced in every line:
A god-like face, but oh, how human still!
Dear Keats, who love the gods their love is thine.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0111110101 01010101001 0111111101 1111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 181 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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