Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems
Keats's last and greatest volume, published a year before his death: the six great odes, three narrative poems, and the unfinished Hyperion.
Measured across the book
Across its 2,960 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 95%). Alliteration runs at 0.97 times what shuffling the words would give (0.29 observed against 0.30 expected). 13% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Lamia, Part Iiambic pentameter · AABB · 398 linesLamia, Part IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 311 linesIsabella; or, The Pot of Basiliambic pentameter · 885 linesOde to a Nightingaleiambic pentameter · ABABCDECDE · 80 linesOde on a Grecian Urniambic pentameter · 50 linesOde to Psycheiambic pentameter · 67 linesFancytrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 94 linesOde (Bards of Passion and of Mirth)trochaic tetrameter · AABB · 40 linesLines on the Mermaid Taverntrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 26 linesRobin Hoodtrochaic tetrameter · AABB · 62 linesTo Autumniambic pentameter · ABABCDECDDE · 33 linesOde on Melancholyiambic pentameter · 30 linesHyperion, Book Iiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 357 linesHyperion, Book IIiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 391 linesHyperion, Book IIIiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 136 lines
About this text
Public domain. Text from Keats: Poems Published in 1820 (Clarendon Press, 1909, ed. M. Robertson), Project Gutenberg ebook #23684. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.