Analysis of Two Songs Rewritten For The Tune's Sake
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I
My Paistin Finn is my sole desire,
And I am shrunken to skin and bone,
For all my heart has had for its hire
Is what I can whistle alone and alone.
Oro, oro.!
Tomorrow night I will break down the door.
What is the good of a man and he
Alone and alone, with a speckled shin?
I would that I drank with my love on my knee
Between two barrels at the inn.
Oro, oro.!
To-morrow night I will break down the door.
Alone and alone nine nights I lay
Between two bushes under the rain;
I thought to have whistled her down that
I whistled and whistled and whistled in vain.
Oro, oro!
To-morrow night I will break down the door.
II
I would that I were an old beggar
Rolling a blind pearl eye,
For he cannot see my lady
Go gallivanting by;
A dreary, dreepy beggar
Without a friend on the earth
But a thieving rascally cur --
O a beggar blind from his birth;
Or anything else but a rhymer
Without a thing in his head
But rhymes for a beautiful lady,
He rhyming alone in his bed.
Scheme | abcbcDefgfgD ExhxhDE abafabibibjfj |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 111111010 011101101 1111111110 11111001001 1010 011111101 110110101 0100110101 11111111111 01110101 1010 1101111101 010011111 011101001 111110011 11001001001 1010 1101111101 1 111101110 100111 11101110 111 010110 0101101 101011 10101111 11011010 0101011 111010010 11001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 942 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 7, 13 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 247 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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