Grammar and Sound
An Excerpt from |
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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