Analysis of Beggar To Beggar Cried
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
'TIME to put off the world and go somewhere
And find my health again in the sea air,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And make my soul before my pate is bare.-
'And get a comfortable wife and house
To rid me of the devil in my shoes,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And the worse devil that is between my thighs.'
And though I'd marry with a comely lass,
She need not be too comely -- let it pass,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'But there's a devil in a looking-glass.'
'Nor should she be too rich, because the rich
Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'And cannot have a humorous happy speech.'
'And there I'll grow respected at my ease,
And hear amid the garden's nightly peace.'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
'The wind-blown clamour of the barnacle-geese.'
Scheme | aaBacdBeffBfggBhijBj |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111101011 0111010011 10110110101 0111011111 0101000101 1111010011 10110110101 00110110111 0111010101 1111110111 10110110101 1101000101 1111110101 11011110101 10110110101 01010100101 0111010111 0101010101 10110110101 0111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 862 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 665 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 153 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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