This is an analysis of the poem To John Keats that begins with:

Great master! Boyish, sympathetic man!
Whose orbed and ripened genius lightly hung ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcXdcXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101010101 11011010101 0111010111 01010010100 01010111001 011111111 1001011111 0101001100 1001110011 01110011100 0101010011 0111010111 10010011111 1100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.

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