Analysis of The Sorrow Of Love
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THE brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,
And all that famous harmony of leaves,
Had blotted out man's image and his cry.
A girl arose that had red mournful lips
And seemed the greatness of the world in tears,
Doomed like Odysseus and the labouring ships
And proud as Priam murdered with his peers;
Arose, and on the instant clamorous eaves,
A climbing moon upon an empty sky,
And all that lamentation of the leaves,
Could but compose man's image and his cry.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010001 0101010101 0111010011 1101110011 0101111101 0101010101 1101000011 011110111 010101011 0101011101 0111101 1101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 395 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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