Analysis of Translated From A Sonnet Of Ronsard

John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)



Nature withheld Cassandra in the skies
For more adornment a full thousand years;
She took their cream of Beauty's fairest dyes,
And shap'd and tinted her above all Peers:
Meanwhile Love kept her dearly with his wings,
And underneath their shadow fill'd her eyes
With such a richness that the cloudy Kings
Of high Olympus utter'd slavish sighs.
When from the Heavens I saw her first descend
My heart took fire, and only burning pains
They were my pleasures -- they my Life's sad end;
Love pour'd her beauty into my warm veins...


Scheme ABABCACADEDE
Poetic Form
Metre 1001010001 1101001101 111111101 0101000111 111010111 00111101 1101010101 1101010101 11010110101 11110010101 1011011111 1101001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 524
Words 95
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 417
Words per stanza (avg) 93
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 10, 2023

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