Analysis of The Travail Of Passion
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
WHEN the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide;
When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream;
We will bend down and loosen our hair over you,
That it may drop faint perfume, and be heavy with dew,
Lilies of death-pale hope, roses of passionate dream.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110111 110101010101 1010101010101 1011010010101 0100101010111 1111010101101 1111101011011 1011111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 431 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 342 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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