Analysis of The Crazed Moon
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
CRAZED through much child-bearing
The moon is staggering in the sky;
Moon-struck by the despairing
Glances of her wandering eye
We grope, and grope in vain,
For children born of her pain.
Children dazed or dead!
When she in all her virginal pride
First trod on the mountain's head
What stir ran through the countryside
Where every foot obeyed her glance!
What manhood led the dance!
Fly-catchers of the moon,
Our hands are blenched, our fingers seem
But slender needles of bone;
Blenched by that malicious dream
They are spread wide that each
May rend what comes in reach.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 011100001 1110010 10101001 110101 1101101 10111 110101001 1110101 1111010 110010101 11101 110101 1011110101 1101011 1110101 111111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 563 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 459 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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