Analysis of The Spirit Medium
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
POETRY, music, I have loved, and yet
Because of those new dead
That come into my soul and escape
Confusion of the bed,
Or those begotten or unbegotten
Perning in a band,
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.
Or those begotten or unbegotten,
For I would not recall
Some that being unbegotten
Are not individual,
But copy some one action,
Moulding it of dust or sand,
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.
An old ghost's thoughts are lightning,
To follow is to die;
Poetry and music I have banished,
But the stupidity
Of root, shoot, blossom or clay
Makes no demand.
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.
Scheme | xaxaBc DC Bxbxbc DC xxxxxc DC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011101 011111 110111001 010101 1101011 1001 11110101 1110101 1101011 11111 11101 110100 1101110 1011111 11110101 1110101 1111110 110111 1000101110 100100 1111011 1101 11110101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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