Analysis of I Am Of Ireland
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
'I am of Ireland,
And the Holy Land of Ireland,
And time runs on,' cried she.
'Come out of charity,
Come dance with me in Ireland.'
One man, one man alone
In that outlandish gear,
One solitary man
Of all that rambled there
Had turned his stately head.
That is a long way off,
And time runs on,' he said,
'And the night grows rough.'
'I am of Ireland,
And the Holy Land of Ireland,
And time runs on,' cried she.
'Come out of charity
And dance with me in Ireland.'
'The fiddlers are all thumbs,
Or the fiddle-string accursed,
The drums and the kettledrums
And the trumpets all are burst,
And the trombone,' cried he,
'The trumpet and trombone,'
And cocked a malicious eye,
'But time runs on, runs on.'
I am of Ireland,
And the Holy Land of Ireland,
And time runs on,' cried she.
"Come out of charity
And dance with me in Ireland.'
Scheme | AABBa cxxxdxdx AABBA eaexbcxx AABBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100 001011100 011111 111100 11110100 111101 010101 11001 111101 111101 110111 011111 00111 111100 001011100 011111 111100 01110100 0100111 101011 01001 0010111 000111 010001 0100101 111111 111100 001011100 011111 111100 01110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 806 |
Words | 170 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 8, 5, 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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