Analysis of Fragment Of An Ode To Maia. Written On May Day 1818
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Mother of Hermes! and still youthful Maia!
May I sing to thee
As thou wast hymned on the shores of Baiae?
Or may I woo thee
In earlier Sicilian? or thy smiles
Seek as they once were sought, in Grecian isles,
By bards who died content on pleasant sward,
Leaving great verse unto a little clan?
O give me their old vigour! and unheard
Save of the quiet primrose, and the span
Of heaven, and few ears,
Rounded by thee, my song should die away
Content as theirs,
Rich in the simple worship of a day.
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Metre | 10110011010 11111 111110111 11111 01000100111 1111010101 1111101101 1011100101 111111001 110101001 110011 1011111101 1011 1001010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 503 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 385 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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