Analysis of At Galway Races
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THERE where the course is,
Delight makes all of the one mind,
The riders upon the galloping horses,
The crowd that closes in behind:
We, too, had good attendance once,
Hearers and hearteners of the work;
Aye, horsemen for companions,
Before the merchant and the clerk
Breathed on the world with timid breath.
Sing on: somewhere at some new moon,
We'll learn that sleeping is not death,
Hearing the whole earth change its tune,
Its flesh being wild, and it again
Crying aloud as the racecourse is,
And we find hearteners among men
That ride upon horses.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 01111011 01001010010 01110001 11110101 1001101 1101010 01010001 11011101 1111111 11110111 10011111 111010101 10011011 0111011 110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 546 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 437 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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