Analysis of Sonnet: After Dark Vapors Have Oppress'd Our Plains
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains
For a long dreary season, comes a day
Born of the gentle South, and clears away
From the sick heavens all unseemly stains.
The anxious month, relieved of its pains,
Takes as a long-lost right the feel of May;
The eyelids with the passing coolness play
Like rose leaves with the drip of Summer rains.
The calmest thoughts came round us; as of leaves
Budding -- fruit ripening in stillness -- Autumn suns
Smiling at eve upon the quiet sheaves --
Sweet Sappho's cheek -- a smiling infant's breath --
The gradual sand that through an hour-glass runs --
A woodland rivulet -- a Poet's death.
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Metre | 10110101101 1011010101 1101010101 1011010101 010101111 1101110111 011010101 1111011101 0101111111 101100010101 1011010101 111010101 010011111011 0110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 489 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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