<P> `` When I Have Fears '' is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats . The 14 - line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet . Keats wrote the poem between January 22 and 31 , 1818 . It was published ( posthumously ) in 1848 in Life , Letters , and Literary Remains , of John Keats by Richard Monckton Milnes . </P>
<P> `` When I Have Fears '' is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats . The 14 - line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet . Keats wrote the poem between January 22 and 31 , 1818 . It was published ( posthumously ) in 1848 in Life , Letters , and Literary Remains , of John Keats by Richard Monckton Milnes . </P>
when was when i have fears that i may cease to be written
when was when i have fears that i may cease to be written
between January 22 and 31 , 1818
between January 22 and 31 , 1818