Analysis of Beautiful Lofty Things
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
BEAUTIFUL lofty things: O'Leary's noble head;
My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd:
'This Land of Saints,' and then as the applause died out,
'Of plaster Saints'; his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.
Standish O'Grady supporting himself between the tables
Speaking to a drunken audience high nonsensical words;
Augusta Gregory seated at her great ormolu table,
Her eightieth winter approaching: 'Yesterday he threatened my life.
I told him that nightly from six to seven I sat at this table,
The blinds drawn up'; Maud Gonne at Howth station waiting a train,
Pallas Athene in that straight back and arrogant head:
All the Olympians; a thing never known again.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHGIAJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100101010101 1100101010110101 111101100111 11011100100111 100100100101010 101010100101001 01010010101110 0100100101011011 11111011110111110 01111111101001 101011101001 1001000110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 685 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 548 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 12, 2023
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