Analysis of Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I found that ivory image there
Dancing with her chosen youth,
But when he wound her coal-black hair
As though to strangle her, no scream
Or bodily movement did I dare,
Eyes under eyelids did so gleam;
Love is like the lion's tooth.
When She, and though some said she played
I said that she had danced heart's truth,
Drew a knife to strike him dead,
I could but leave him to his fate;
For no matter what is said
They had all that had their hate;
Love is like the lion's tooth.
Did he die or did she die?
Seemed to die or died they both?
God be with the times when I
Cared not a thraneen for what chanced
So that I had the limbs to try
Such a dance as there was danced -
Love is like the lion's tooth.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100101 1010101 11110111 11110011 110010111 1101111 1110101 11011111 11111111 1011111 11111111 1110111 1111111 1110101 1111111 1111111 1110111 1101111 11110111 1011111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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