Analysis of To Some I Have Talked With By The Fire
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
WHILE I wrought out these fitful Danaan rhymes,
My heart would brim with dreams about the times
When we bent down above the fading coals
And talked of the dark folk who live in souls
Of passionate men, like bats in the dead trees;
And of the wayward twilight companies
Who sigh with mingled sorrow and content,
Because their blossoming dreams have never bent
Under the fruit of evil and of good:
And of the embattled flaming multitude
Who rise, wing above wing, flame above flame,
And, like a storm, cry the Ineffable Name,
And with the clashing of their sword-blades make
A rapturous music, till the morning break
And the white hush end all but the loud beat
Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGGHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011 1111110101 1111010101 0110111101 11001110011 010101100 1111010010 01110011101 1001110011 0100101010 1110111011 01011001001 0101011111 01001010101 0011111011 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 704 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 568 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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