Analysis of What Kisses Had John Keats?
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
I scanned two lines with some surmise
As over Keats I chanced to pore:
'And there I shut her wild, wild eyes
With kisses four.'
Says I: 'Why was it only four,
Not five or six or seven?
I think I would have made it more,--
Even eleven.
'Gee! If she'd lured a guy like me
Into her gelid grot
I'd make that Belle Dame sans Merci
Sure kiss a lot.
'Them poets have their little tricks;
I think John counted kisses for,
Not two or three or five or six
To rhyme with "sore."'
Scheme | ABAB BCBC XDAD EBEB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 11011111 01110111 1101 11111101 1111110 11111111 10010 11110111 01011 1111111 1101 11011101 11110101 11111111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 522 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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