Analysis of Consolation
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
O but there is wisdom
In what the sages said;
But stretch that body for a while
And lay down that head
Till I have told the sages
Where man is comforted.
How could passion run so deep
Had I never thought
That the crime of being born
Blackens all our lot?
But where the crime's committed
The crime can be forgot.
| Scheme | XAXAXX XXXBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 010101 11110101 01111 1111010 111100 1110111 11101 1011101 101101 1101010 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 308 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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