Analysis of The Mountain Tomb
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
POUR wine and dance if manhood still have pride,
Bring roses if the rose be yet in bloom;
The cataract smokes upon the mountain side,
Our Father Rosicross is in his tomb.
Pull down the blinds, bring fiddle and clarionet
That there be no foot silent in the room
Nor mouth from kissing, nor from wine unwet;
Our Father Rosicross is in his tomb.
In vain, in pain; the cataract still cries;
The everlasting taper lights the gloom;
All wisdom shut into his onyx eyes,
Our Father Rosicross sleeps in his tomb.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111111 1101011101 01001010101 101011011 110111001 1111110001 111101111 101011011 0101010011 001010101 1101011101 101011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 398 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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