Analysis of From The 'Antigone'
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Overcome -- O bitter sweetness,
Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl --
The rich man and his affairs,
The fat flocks and the fields' fatness,
Mariners, rough harvesters;
Overcome Gods upon Parnassus;
Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
Heaven and Earth out of their places,
That in the Same calamity
Brother and brother, friend and friend,
Family and family,
City and city may contend,
By that great glory driven wild.
Pray I will and sing I must,
And yet I weep -- Oedipus' child
Descends into the loveless dust.
Scheme | ABXAXA BXCDCDE FEF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 01001011101 0110101 0110011 1001100 1010110 10011 100111110 10010100 10010101 1000100 10010101 11110101 1110111 01111001 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 7, 3 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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