Analysis of Chosen
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
The lot of love is chosen. I learnt that much
Struggling for an image on the track
Of the whirling Zodiac.
Scarce did he my body touch,
Scarce sank he from the west
Or found a subtetranean rest
On the maternal midnight of my breast
Before I had marked him on his northern way,
And seemed to stand although in bed I lay.
I struggled with the horror of daybreak,
I chose it for my lot! If questioned on
My utmost pleasure with a man
By some new-married bride, I take
That stillness for a theme
Where his heart my heart did seem
And both adrift on the miraculous stream
Where -- wrote a learned astrologer --
The Zodiac is changed into a sphere.
Scheme | ABBACCCDDEFGEHHHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111101111 1001110101 101010 1111101 111101 11011 100101111 01111111101 011110111 110101011 1111111101 1110101 11110111 110101 1111111 01011001001 11010100 010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 505 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 125 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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