Analysis of Are You Content?
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I CALL on those that call me son,
Grandson, or great-grandson,
On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,
To judge what I have done.
Have I, that put it into words,
Spoilt what old loins have sent?
Eyes spiritualised by death can judge,
I cannot, but I am not content.
He that in Sligo at Drumcliff
Set up the old stone Cross,
That red-headed rector in County Down,
A good man on a horse,
Sandymount Corbets, that notable man
Old William pollexfen,
The smuggler Middleton, Butlers far back,
Half legendary men.
Infirm and aged I might stay
In some good company,
I who have always hated work,
Smiling at the sea,
Or demonstrate in my own life
What Robert Browning meant
By an old hunter talking with Gods;
But I am not content.
Scheme | AABACDEDFGHIJAKLMNONFDPD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 1111 1101110111 111111 11111011 111111 111111 110111110 110111 110111 1110100101 011101 1111001 1101 0101001011 11001 0101111 011100 1111101 10101 1100111 110101 111101011 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 715 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 569 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 132 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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