Analysis of Faery Song
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Sung by the people of Faery over Diarmuid and Grania, in their bridal sleep under a Cromlech.
We who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told:
Give to these children, new from the world,
Silence and love;
And the long dew-dropping hours of the night,
And the stars above:
Gie to these children, new from the world,
Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell us it then:
Us who are old, old and gay,
O so old!
Thousands of years, thousands of years,
If all were told.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101110101011011001 1111101 111 10111011 1101 111101101 1001 00111010101 00101 111101101 1111 110101010 1111 1111101 111 10111011 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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