Analysis of The Valley of the Black Pig
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
The dews drop slowly and dreams gather: unknown spears
Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes,
And then the clash of fallen horsemen and the cries
Of unknown perishing armies beat about my ears.
We who still labour by the cromlech on the shore,
The grey caim on the hill, when day sinks drowned in dew,
Being weary of the world's empires, bow down to you.
Master of the still stars and of the flaming door.
| Scheme | ABBACDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011100110011 1001001110101 010111010001 1011001010111 1111101101 011101111101 10101011001111 101011010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 414 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 328 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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