Analysis of The Indian To His Love
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THE island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop tranquillity;
The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.
Here we will moor our lonely ship
And wander ever with woven hands,
Murmuring softly lip to lip,
Along the grass, along the sands,
Murmuring how far away are the unquiet lands:
How we alone of mortals are
Hid under quiet boughs apart,
While our love grows an Indian star,
A meteor of the burning heart,
One with the tide that gleams, the wings that gleam
and dart,
The heavy boughs, the burnished dove
That moans and sighs a hundred days:
How when we die our shades will rove,
When eve has hushed the feathered ways,
With vapoury footsole by the water's drowsy blaze.
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Metre | 01011001 01111 0111011 01010101 10111100011 111110101 010101101 10010111 01010101 10011011011 11011101 11010101 1101111001 010010101 1101110111 01 01010101 11010101 111110111 11110101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 734 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 590 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 137 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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