Analysis of Sonnet To Sleep
John Keats 1795 (Moorgate) – 1821 (Rome)
O soft embalmer of the still midnight!
Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,
Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light,
Enshaded in forgetfulness divine;
O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close,
In midst of this thine hymn, my willing eyes.
Or wait the Amen, ere thy poppy throws
Around my bed its lulling charities;
Then save me, or the passed day will shine
Upon my pillow, breeding many woes;
Save me from curious conscience, that still hoards
Its strength for darkness, burrowing like a mole;
Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards,
And seal the hushed casket of my soul.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 1011010001 101111101 10101 111111111 0111111101 1100111101 0111110100 111101111 0111010101 11110010111 11110100101 101100011 010110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 467 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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