Corrections
Three spelling errors were corrected for the Project Gutenberg edition.The original lines appeared in the 1817 edition as follows:
ToLine 10: Like to streaks across the sky,
To Charles Cowden ClarkeLine 82: Of my rough verses not an hour mispent;
Sleep and PoetryLine 181: Could all this be forgotten? Yes, a scism
About this text
Corrections is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems 1817, Project Gutenberg ebook #8209; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: John Keats, Corrections, in Poems (1817) (1817), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #8209, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/keats-1817/corrections.html, id L00418.
Form and metre
Corrections is 8 lines in 4 verse paragraphs. It is unrhymed, as far as the pronouncing dictionary can tell. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter. 91% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 9.4 syllables. 4 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 50% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in iambic pentameter, other poems in blank verse.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Three spelling errors were corrected for the Project Gutenberg edition. | 18 | ·/˘/˘·˘/˘··/˘/˘˘/˘ |
| The original lines appeared in the 1817 edition as follows: | 15 | ·˘/˘·˘/··˘/˘·/˘ |
| To | 1 | · |
| Line 10: Like to streaks across the sky, | 8 | ····˘/·· |
| To Charles Cowden Clarke | 5 | ··/˘· |
| Line 82: Of my rough verses not an hour mispent; | 11 | ····/˘··/·· |
| Sleep and Poetry | 5 | ··/˘˘ |
| Line 181: Could all this be forgotten? Yes, a scism | 12 | ·····˘/˘··/˘ |
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