Analysis of The Three Monuments
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THEY hold their public meetings where
Our most renowned patriots stand,
One among the birds of the air,
A stumpier on either hand;
And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud
And pride bring in impurity:
The three old rascals laugh aloud.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 101011001 10101101 011101 010100101 11001101 01011101 01110101 1101111 01100100 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 351 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 283 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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