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.'


Scheme ABCBDEFEAGHGIEJEAKLKMENE
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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William Butler Yeats

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