Analysis of The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)



I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 623
Words 123
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 483
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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William Butler Yeats

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