Analysis of Running To Paradise
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
As I came over Windy Gap
They threw a halfpenny into my cap.
For I am running to paradise;
And all that I need do is to wish
And somebody puts his hand in the dish
To throw me a bit of salted fish:
And there the king is but as the beggar.
My brother Mourteen is worn out
With skelping his big brawling lout,
And I am running to paradise;
A poor life, do what he can,
And though he keep a dog and a gun,
A serving-maid and a serving-man:
And there the king is but as the beggar.
Poor men have grown to be rich men,
And rich men grown to be poor again,
And I am running to paradise;
And many a darling wit's grown dull
That tossed a bare heel when at school,
Now it has filled a old sock full:
And there the king is but as the beggar.
The wind is old and still at play
While I must hurty upon my way.
For I am running to paradise;
Yet never have I lit on a friend
To take my fancy like the wind
That nobody can buy or bind:
And there the king is but as the beggar.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11010111 11110110 011111111 010111001 111011101 0101111010 1101111 1111101 01110110 0111111 011101001 010100101 0101111010 11111111 011111101 01110110 010010111 11011111 11110111 0101111010 01110111 11110111 11110110 110111101 11110101 111111 0101111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 943 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 07, 2023
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