Analysis of The Hawk
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
'CALL down the hawk from the air;
Let him be hooded or caged
Till the yellow eye has grown mild,
For larder and spit are bare,
The old cook enraged,
The scullion gone wild.'
'I will not be clapped in a hood,
Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist,
Now I have learnt to be proud
Hovering over the wood
In the broken mist
Or tumbling cloud.'
'What tumbling cloud did you cleave,
Yellow-eyed hawk of the mind,
Last evening? that I, who had sat
Dumbfounded before a knave,
Should give to my friend
A pretence of wit.'
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Metre | 1101101 1111011 10101111 1100111 01101 01011 11111001 101101011 1111111 1001001 00101 11001 11001111 1011101 11011111 1000101 11111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 389 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 98 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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