Analysis of Paudeen

William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)



INDIGNANT at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite
Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind
Among the stones and thorn-trees, under morning light;
Until a curlew cried and in the luminous wind
A curlew answered; and suddenly thereupon I thought
That on the lonely height where all are in God's eye,
There cannot be, confusion of our sound forgot,
A single soul that lacks a sweet crystalline cry.


Scheme ABABCDED
Poetic Form
Metre 0101010010011 110110111101 010101110101 010110001001 011001000111 110101111011 1101010110101 01011101101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 404
Words 73
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 322
Words per stanza (avg) 71
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 18, 2023

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William Butler Yeats

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