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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Metre | 11010110111 0011011110101 1111111011010 010100111 0111111111101 101011010110101 111010010101 01011011 110101111101 1111010111101 111101110101 11100111 |
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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