Analysis of He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
FASTEN your hair with a golden pin,
And bind up every wandering tress;
I bade my heart build these poor rhymes:
It worked at them, day out, day in,
Building a sorrowful loveliness
Out of the battles of old times.
You need but lift a pearl-pale hand,
And bind up your long hair and sigh;
And all men's hearts must burn and beat;
And candle-like foam on the dim sand,
And stars climbing the dew-dropping sky,
Live but to light your passing feet.
Scheme | ABCABCDEFDEF |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110101 0111001001 11111111 11111110 1001001 11010111 11110111 01111101 01111101 010111011 011001101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 440 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 344 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Font size:
Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
- 25 sec read
- 428 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 19 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/39339/he-gives-his-beloved-certain-rhymes>.
Discuss this William Butler Yeats poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In