Analysis of The Everlasting Voices
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
O SWEET everlasting Voices, be still;
Go to the guards of the heavenly fold
And bid them wander obeying your will,
Flame under flame, till Time be no more;
Have you not heard that our hearts are old,
That you call in birds, in wind on the hill,
In shaken boughs, in tide on the shore?
O sweet everlasting Voices, be still.
| Scheme | AbacbacA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101011 1101101001 0111001011 110111111 1111110111 1110101101 010101101 110101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 323 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 249 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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