Analysis of He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven

William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)



I HAVE drunk ale from the Country of the Young
And weep because I know all things now:
I have been a hazel-tree, and they hung
The Pilot Star and the Crooked Plough
Among my leaves in times out of mind:
I became a rush that horses tread:
I became a man, a hater of the wind,
Knowing one, out of all things, alone, that his head
May not lie on the breast nor his lips on thc hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
Must I endure your amorous cries?


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEF
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Metre 11111010101 010111111 1110101011 010100101 011101111 101011101 10101010101 101111101111 111101111111 10101110111 11101001101 110111001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 496
Words 105
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 382
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 23, 2023

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William Butler Yeats

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