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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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. more…

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