Analysis of He Mourns For The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved, And Longs For The End Of The World
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
DO you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns,
For somebody hid hatred and hope and desire and fear
Under my feet that they follow you night and day.
A man with a hazel wand came without sound;
He changed me suddenly; I was looking another way;
And now my calling is but the calling of a hound;
And Time and Birth and Change are hurrying by.
I would that the Boar without bristles had come from the West
And had rooted the sun and moon and stars out of the sky
And lay in the darkness, grunting, and turning to his rest.
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Metre | 111111011111 11111011111 1110011100111 11011001001001 101111101101 01101011011 11110011100101 0111011010101 01010111001 11101011011101 01100101011101 01001010010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 493 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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