Analysis of The Song Of The Old Mother
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I RISE in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till stars are beginning to blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream in their bed
Of the matching of ribbons for bosom and head,
And their ~y goes over in idleness,
And they sigh if the wind but lift a tress:
While I must work because I am old,
And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold.
Scheme | AABBCCDEFF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1100101101 10110101001 011110101 1110101101 0011101011 101011011001 0111100100 0111011101 111101111 001101011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 424 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 327 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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