Analysis of The Living Beauty
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I BADE, because the wick and oil are spent
And frozen are the channels of the blood,
My discontented heart to draw content
From beauty that is cast out of a mould
In bronze, or that in dazzling marble appears,
Appears, but when wc have gone is gone again,
Being more indifferent to our solitude
Than 'twere an apparition. O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its rribute of wild tears.
Scheme | ABACDEFCEG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1101010111 0101010101 101011110 1101111101 011101001001 01111111101 10101011010 11101011111 0101011101 110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 421 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 331 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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