Analysis of The Dawn
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I WOULD be ignorant as the dawn
That has looked down
On that old queen measuring a town
With the pin of a brooch,
Or on the withered men that saw
From their pedantic Babylon
The careless planets in their courses,
The stars fade out where the moon comes.
And took their tablets and did sums;
I would be ignorant as the dawn
That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach
Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses;
I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100101 1111 111110001 101101 11010111 1101010 010100110 01111011 01110011 111100101 11011001001 01010101010 11111101101 100010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 491 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 391 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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