Analysis of Crazy Jane On The Mountain
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I AM tired of cursing the Bishop,
(Said Crazy Jane)
Nine books or nine hats
Would not make him a man.
I have found something worse
To meditate on.
A King had some beautiful cousins.
But where are they gone?
Battered to death in a cellar,
And he stuck to his throne.
Last night I lay on the mountain.
(Said Crazy Jane)
There in a two-horsed carriage
That on two wheels ran
Great-bladdered Emer sat.
Her violent man
Cuchulain sat at her side;
Thereupon'
Propped upon my two knees,
I kissed a stone
I lay stretched out in the dirt
And I cried tears down.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110010 1101 11111 111101 111101 1101 011110010 11111 10110010 011111 11111010 1101 1001110 11111 1111 01001 11101 01 101111 1101 1111001 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 428 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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