Analysis of Reconciliation
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
SOME may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind
With lightning, you went from me, and I could find
Nothing to make a song about but kings,
Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things
That were like memories of you -- but now
We'll out, for the world lives as long ago;
And while we're in our laughing, weeping fit,
Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.
But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.
Scheme | AABBCCDEFFGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 0101111101 101101011011 11011110111 1011010111 1001010101 1011001111 1110111101 01101010101 1101010101 1111111101 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 558 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 432 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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