Analysis of He Reproves The Curlew
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
O CURLEW, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the water in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind.
| Scheme | ABCABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Italian Sestet |
| Metre | 11111001 1101010001 011101111 101101101 111011011 110110001011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 228 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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