Analysis of A Song From "The Player Queen"
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
MY mother dandled me and sang,
"How young it is, how young!'
And made a golden cradle
That on a willow swung.
"He went away,' my mother sang,
"When I was brought to bed,'
And all the while her needle pulled
The gold and silver thread.
She pulled the thread and bit the thread
And made a golden gown,
And wept because she had dreamt that I
Was born to wear a crown.
"When she was got,' my mother sang,
I heard a sea-mew cry,
And saw a flake of the yellow foam
That dropped upon my thigh."
How therefore could she help but braid
The gold into my hair,
And dream that I should carry
The golden top of care?
Scheme | ABCBADEDDFGFAGHGIJKJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1101101 111111 0101010 11011 11011101 111111 01010101 010101 11010101 010101 010111111 111101 11111101 110111 010110101 110111 1111111 010111 0111110 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 457 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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