Analysis of Lines Written In Dejection
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
WHEN have I last looked on
The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies
Of the dark leopards of the moon?
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,
For all their broom-sticks and their tears,
Their angry tears, are gone.
The holy centaurs of the hills are vanished;
I have nothing but the embittered sun;
Banished heroic mother moon and vanished,
And now that I have come to fifty years
I must endure the timid sun.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 011100110010 10110101 10110111010 11111011 110111 0101101110 1110100101 10010101010 0111111101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 423 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 337 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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