Analysis of Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped

William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)



III
Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,
Peleus on Thetis stares.
Her limbs are delicate as an eyelid,
Love has blinded him with tears;
But Thetis' belly listens.
Down the mountain walls
From where pan's cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.


Scheme ABCDCEFGFHICJ
Poetic Form
Metre 1 101010111 11101 011100111 1110111 1101010 10101 111101 01000101 11110101 10101 11101 10001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 354
Words 60
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 285
Words per stanza (avg) 58
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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William Butler Yeats

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