Analysis of Form the Green Helmet And Other Poems
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
HIS DREAM
I SWAYED upon the gaudy stem
The butt-end of a steering-oar,
And saw wherever I could turn
A crowd upon a shore.
And though I would have hushed the crowd,
There was no mother's son but said,
'What is the figure in a shroud
Upon a gaudy bed?'
And after running at the brim
Cried out upon that thing beneath
-- It had such dignity of limb --
By the sweet name of Death.
Though I'd my finger on my lip,
What could I but take up the song?
And running crowd and gaudy ship
Cried out the whole night long,
Crying amid the glittering sea,
Naming it with ecstatic breath,
Because it had such dignity,
By the sweet name of Death.
Scheme | abcdcefefghgIjkjklilI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 11010101 01110101 01010111 010101 01111101 11110111 11010001 010101 01010101 11011101 11110011 101111 11110111 11111101 01010101 110111 100101001 10110101 01111100 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 484 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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