Analysis of Sweet Dancer
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THE girl goes dancing there
On the leaf-sown, new-mown, smooth
Grass plot of the garden;
Escaped from bitter youth,
Escaped out of her crowd,
Or out of her black cloud.
Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer.!
If strange men come from the house
To lead her away, do not say
That she is happy being crazy;
Lead them gently astray;
Let her finish her dance,
Let her finish her dance.
Ah, dancer, ah, sweet dancer.!
| Scheme | xxxxaaB xcxcDDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101 1011111 111010 011101 011101 111011 1101110 1111101 11001111 111101010 111001 101001 101001 1101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 397 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 153 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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