Analysis of Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I met the Bishop on the road
And much said he and I.
'Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
Those veins must soon be dry;
Live in a heavenly mansion,
Not in some foul sty.'
'Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,' I cried.
'My friends are gone, but that's a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied,
Learned in bodily lowliness
And in the heart's pride.
'A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent;
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.'
Scheme | XAXAXA BCXCXC XDBXXD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 011101 11110101 111111 10010010 10111 1011111 011111 11111101 111101 101001 00011 01011101 11101 11111100 011100 11011111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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