Analysis of The Cap And Bells
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THE jester walked in the garden:
The garden had fallen still;
He bade his soul rise upward
And stand on her window-sill.
It rose in a straight blue garment,
When owls began to call:
It had grown wise-tongued by thinking
Of a quiet and light footfall;
But the young queen would not listen;
She rose in her pale night-gown;
She drew in the heavy casement
And pushed the latches down.
He bade his heart go to her,
When the owls called out no more;
In a red and quivering garment
It sang to her through the door.
It had grown sweet-tongued by dreaming
Of a flutter of flower-like hair;
But she took up her fan from the table
And waved it off on the air.
'I have cap and bells,' he pondered,
'I will send them to her and die';
And when the morning whitened
He left them where she went by.
She laid them upon her bosom,
Under a cloud of her hair,
And her red lips sang them a love-song
Till stars grew out of the air.
She opened her door and her window,
And the heart and the soul came through,
To her right hand came the red one,
To her left hand came the blue.
They set up a noise like crickets,
A chattering wise and sweet,
And her hair was a folded flower
And the quiet of love in her feet.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEAGCGHIDIFJKJCLCLMJNJOPAPQRHR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010010 0101101 1111110 0110101 11001110 110111 11111110 1010011 10111110 1100111 1100101 010101 1111110 1011111 001010010 1110101 11111110 101011011 1111011010 0111101 11101110 11111001 010101 1111111 11101010 1001101 001111011 1111101 110010010 00100111 10111011 1011101 11101110 0100101 001101010 001011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,161 |
Words | 239 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 36 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 915 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 236 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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