Analysis of The Leaders Of The Crowd
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THEY must to keep their certainty accuse
All that are different of a base intent;
Pull down established honour; hawk for news
Whatever their loose fantasy invent
And murmur it with bated breath, as though
The abounding gutter had been Helicon
Or calumny a song. How can they know
Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,
And there alone, that have no Solitude?
So the crowd come they care not what may come.
They have loud music, hope every day renewed
And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.
| Scheme | ABABCDCEFGFH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110001 11110010101 110101111 101110001 0101110111 0010101110 1100011111 11001010111 010111110 1011111111 111101100101 01001111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 510 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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