Analysis of He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
| Scheme | ABABCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
| Metre | 110100101 11100101 010010011 11010011 111011011 1110111011 111111011 1100111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 328 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 257 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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