Analysis of After Long Silence
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead,
Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,
The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,
That we descant and yet again descant
Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song:
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.
| Scheme | ABCAADEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110111 11010100111 010111011 0101010101 11101011 0100111101 10011101 1111000100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 319 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 258 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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