Analysis of The Saint And The Hunchback
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Hunchback. Stand up and lift your hand and bless
A man that finds great bitterness
In thinking of his lost renown.
A Roman Caesar is held down
Under this hump.
Saint. God tries each man
According to a different plan.
I shall not cease to bless because
I lay about me with the taws
That night and morning I may thrash
Greek Alexander from my flesh,
Augustus Caesar, and after these
That great rogue Alcibiades.
Hunchback. To all that in your flesh have stood
And blessed, I give my gratitude,
Honoured by all in their degrees,
But most to Alcibiades.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011101 01111100 01011101 01010111 1011 11111 010101001 11111101 11011101 11010111 1010111 010100101 1111 111101111 0111110 1110101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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