Analysis of Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
Fill for me a brimming bowl
And in it let me drown my soul:
But put therein some drug, designed
To Banish Women from my mind:
For I want not the stream inspiring
That fills the mind with--fond desiring,
But I want as deep a draught
As e'er from Lethe's wave was quaff'd;
From my despairing heart to charm
The Image of the fairest form
That e'er my reveling eyes beheld,
That e'er my wandering fancy spell'd.
In vain! away I cannot chace
The melting softness of that face,
The beaminess of those bright eyes,
That breast--earth's only Paradise.
My sight will never more be blest;
For all I see has lost its zest:
Nor with delight can I explore,
The Classic page, or Muse's lore.
Had she but known how beat my heart,
And with one smile reliev'd its smart
I should have felt a sweet relief,
I should have felt ``the joy of grief.''
Yet as the Tuscan mid the snow
Of Lapland dreams on sweet Arno,
Even so for ever shall she be
The Halo of my Memory.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 00111111 11011101 11010111 111101010 1101110100 1111101 11011111 11010111 01010101 110110011 1101100101 01011101 01010111 011111 1111010 11110111 11111111 11011101 0101111 11111111 01110111 11110101 11111111 11010101 1111110 101110111 01011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 926 |
Words | 184 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 729 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 181 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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