Analysis of A Last Confession
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
What lively lad most pleasured me
Of all that with me lay?
I answer that I gave my soul
And loved in misery,
But had great pleasure with a lad
That I loved bodily.
Flinging from his arms I laughed
To think his passion such
He fancied that I gave a soul
Did but our bodies touch,
And laughed upon his breast to think
Beast gave beast as much.
I gave what other women gave
That stepped out of their clothes.
But when this soul, its body off,
Naked to naked goes,
He it has found shall find therein
What none other knows,
And give his own and take his own
And rule in his own right;
And though it loved in misery
Close and cling so tight,
There's not a bird of day that dare
Extinguish that delight.
Scheme | AXBAXA XCBCXC XXXDXD XEAEXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 111111 11011111 010100 11110101 111100 1011111 111101 11011101 1110101 01011111 11111 11110101 111111 11111101 101101 11111101 11101 01110111 010111 01110100 10111 11011111 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 681 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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