Analysis of Into The Twilight
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
OUT-WORN heart, in a time out-worn,
Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
Your mother Eire is aways young,
Dew ever shining and twilight grey;
Though hope fall from you and love decay,
Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.
Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will;
And God stands winding His lonely horn,
And time and the world are ever in flight;
And love is less kind than the grey twilight,
And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100111 111011101 11010011 1101001101 1101111 11010011 111110101 10010101001 111111011 11010010 110101001 010011111 011101101 0100111001 011111011 01111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 505 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 123 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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