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.


Scheme ABBACDDCEFFEABBA
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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William Butler Yeats

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