Analysis of The Fascination Of What's Difficult
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THE fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt
That must, as if it had not holy blood
Nor on Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud,
Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt
As though it dragged road-metal. My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theatre business, management of men.
I swear before the dawn comes round again
I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.
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Metre | 001011100 1101111101 01001010010 11111101101 1111111101 1101011111 1010011101 11111101111 1111110101 10111100101 1001010011 1101011101 1101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 546 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 429 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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