Analysis of The Lady's Third Song
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
WHEN you and my true lover meet
And he plays tunes between your feet.
Speak no evil of the soul,
Nor think that body is the whole,
For I that am his daylight lady
Know worse evil of the body;
But in honour split his love
Till either neither have enough,
That I may hear if we should kiss
A contrapuntal serpent hiss,
You, should hand explore a thigh,
All the labouring heavens sigh.
| Scheme | AABBCCDEFFGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 01110111 1110101 11110101 11111110 11101010 101111 11010101 11111111 01101 1110101 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 379 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 300 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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