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
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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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. more…

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