Analysis of A Woman homer Sung
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
IF any man drew near
When I was young,
I thought, 'He holds her dear,'
And shook with hate and fear.
But O! 'twas bitter wrong
If he could pass her by
With an indifferent eye.
Whereon I wrote and wrought,
And now, being grey,
I dream that I have brought
To such a pitch my thought
That coming time can say,
'He shadowed in a glass
What thing her body was.'
For she had fiery blood
When I was young,
And trod so sweetly proud
As 'twere upon a cloud,
A woman Homer sung,
That life and letters seem
But an heroic dream.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 1111 111101 011101 111101 111101 110101 11101 01101 111111 110111 110111 110001 110101 1111001 1111 011101 110101 010101 110101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 504 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 392 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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