Analysis of The Lady's Second Song
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
WHAT sort of man is coming
To lie between your feet?
What matter, we are but women.
Wash; make your body sweet;
I have cupboards of dried fragrance.
I can strew the sheet.
The Lord have mercy upon us.
He shall love my soul as though
Body were not at all,
He shall love your body
Untroubled by the soul,
Love cram love's two divisions
Yet keep his substance whole.
The Lord have mercy upon us.
Soul must learn a love that is
proper to my breast,
Limbs a Love in common
With every noble beast.
If soul may look and body touch,
Which is the more blest?
The Lord have mercy upon us.
| Scheme | xabaxaC xxxdxdC xebxxeC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110 110111 11011110 111101 11101110 11101 01110011 1111111 100111 111110 010101 1111010 111101 01110011 1110111 10111 101010 1100101 11110101 11011 01110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 566 |
| Words | 116 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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