Analysis of News For The Delphic Oracle
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THERE all the golden codgers lay,
There the silver dew,
And the great water sighed for love,
And the wind sighed too.
Man-picker Niamh leant and sighed
By Oisin on the grass;
There sighed amid his choir of love
Tall pythagoras.
plotinus came and looked about,
The salt-flakes on his breast,
And having stretched and yawned awhile
Lay sighing like the rest.
Straddling each a dolphin's back
And steadied by a fin,
Those Innocents re-live their death,
Their wounds open again.
The ecstatic waters laugh because
Their cries are sweet and strange,
Through their ancestral patterns dance,
And the brute dolphins plunge
Until, in some cliff-sheltered bay
Where wades the choir of love
Proffering its sacred laurel crowns,
They pitch their burdens off.
Scheme | ABCBDECEFGHGIJKLMNOPACQR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 10101 00110111 00111 11011001 11101 110111011 11 110101 011111 01010101 110101 101011 010101 11001111 111001 001010101 111101 11010101 001101 01011101 1101011 100110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 730 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 601 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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