Analysis of Sonnet: As From The Darkening Gloom A Silver Dove
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
As from the darkening gloom a silver dove
Upsoars, and darts into the eastern light,
On pinions that nought moves but pure delight,
So fled thy soul into the realms above,
Regions of peace and everlasting love;
Where happy spirits, crown'd with circlets bright
Of starry beam, and gloriously bedight,
Taste the high joy none but the blest can prove.
There thou or joinest the immortal quire
In melodies that even heaven fair
Fill with superior bliss, or, at desire,
Of the omnipotent Father, cleav'st the air
On holy message sent -- What pleasure's higher?
Wherefore does any grief our joy impair?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010010101 101010101 111111101 1111010101 101100101 110101111 1101010001 1011110111 111100101 0100110101 110100111010 10010010101 1101011110 1110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 476 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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