Analysis of Ode. Written On The Blank Page Before Beaumont And Fletcher's Tragi-Comedy 'The Fair Maid Of The Inn'
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Have ye souls in heaven too,
Doubled-lived in regions new?
Yes, and those of heaven commune
With the spheres of sun and moon;
With the noise of fountains wondrous,
And the parle of voices thund'rous;
With the whisper of heaven's trees
And one another, in soft ease
Seated on Elysian lawns
Browsed by none but Dian's fawns;
Underneath large blue-bells tented,
Where the daisies are rose-scented,
And the rose herself has got
Perfume which on earth is not;
Where the nightingale doth sing
Not a senseless, tranced thing,
But divine melodious truth;
Philosophic numbers smooth;
Tales and golden histories
Of heaven and its mysteries.
Thus ye live on high, and then
On the earth ye live again;
And the souls ye left behind you
Teach us, here, the way to find you,
Where your other souls are joying,
Never slumber'd, never cloying.
Here, your earth-born souls still speak
To mortals, of their little week;
Of their sorrows and delights;
Of their passions and their spites;
Of their glory and their shame;
What doth strengthen and what maim.
Thus ye teach us, every day,
Wisdom, though fled far away.
Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
Ye have left your souls on earth!
Ye have souls in heaven too,
Double-lived in regions new!
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1110011 1111111 1110101 1010101 10111010 1011101 10111010 0011101 10101101 01010011 10111 111111 011111 10101110 0010111 0111111 1010011 101011 10101001 010101 1010100 11001100 1111101 1011101 00111011 11101111 11101110 1011010 1111111 11011101 1110001 1110011 1110011 1110011 11111001 1011101 1110011 1111111 1110101 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,290 |
Words | 226 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 22, 14, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 336 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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