Grammar and Sound

 

An Excerpt from
“The Eve of St. Agnes”

by John Keats
 

     And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep,

     In blanched linen, smooth, and lavender’d,

     While he forth from the closet brought a heap

     Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd;

     With jellies soother than the creamy curd,

     And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon;

     Manna and dates, in argosy transferr’d

     From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one,

From silken Samarcand to cedar’d Lebanon.
 

 
Red letters indicate vowel sounds that stretch your mouth side-to-side
Blue letters indicate vowel sounds that stretch your mouth back-to-front

 

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