[Grammar] Make it complex sentence

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Hi There,

Could you kindly help me in turning the line into a complex sentence ?
This is a line taken from the popular poem of John Keats "The Poetry of Earth"

"In warmth increasing ever, and seems to one in drowsiness half lost, the Grasshopper is among some grassy hills. "

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Your quote begins in the middle of a sentence. Here's the complete sonnet:



The Poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead
In summer luxury,—he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills
The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

Why do you want to make that last sentence any more complex than it already is?


 
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This is two and a half lines taken from the popular poem of John Keats "The Poetry of Earth"

"... in warmth increasing ever,/ and seems to one in drowsiness half lost,/ the Grasshopper is among some grassy hills."
The above is the correct (academic) way to set out the lines of a poem when written in prose. A slash is used to represent a new line.
 

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Is this homework? I can't think of any other reason why anyone would want to do this. We don't do homework here.
 

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This is not any homework actually. I found this in a competitive examination book where this has been placed for readers. since I could not arrange the answer properly, I requested here to explain..
The answer I had prepared is "As the warmth increases ever, it seems to one in drowsiness, in which he is half lost, that the grasshopper is there in among some grassy hills."
It is not so important.. just to quench my curiosity..
 

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My advice is that you use your curiosity for something more useful. At no point are you ever going to need, in real life, to make an already over-complicated quote from an old poem even more complex. I suggest you concentrate on useful, practical English.
 

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It is already a complex sentence- are you expected to make a separate sentence from just the second part and turn it into a complex one?
 

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It's poetry. Poetic license has already been taken. What's the purpose in rearranging it?

It's like colorizing Casablanca. There's nothing to be gained from it.



--lotus
 
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Thanks all for your advice. It was just out of curiosity I posted here to learn if anything further could be made. There is none to ask me anything like this. It was just my curiosity.

Thanks all..
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