Analysis of Solomon To Sheba
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
SANG Solomon to Sheba,
And kissed her dusky face,
'All day long from mid-day
We have talked in the one place,
All day long from shadowless noon
We have gone round and round
In the narrow theme of love
Like a old horse in a pound.-
To Solomon sang Sheba,
Plated on his knees,
'If you had broached a matter
That might the learned please,
You had before the sun had thrown
Our shadows on the ground
Discovered that my thoughts, not it,
Are but a narrow pound.'
Said Solomon to Sheba,
And kissed her Arab eyes,
'There's not a man or woman
Born under the skies
Dare match in learning with us two,
And all day long we have found
There's not a thing but love can make
The world a narrow pound.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100110 01011 111111 1110011 111111 111101 0010111 1011001 1100110 10111 1111010 11011 11010111 101101 01011111 110101 1100110 010101 1101110 11001 11010111 0111111 11011111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 531 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 134 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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