Analysis of Mad As The Mist And Snow
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Bolt and bar the shutter,
For the foul winds blow:
Our minds are at their best this night,
And I seem to know
That everything outside us is
Mad as the mist and snow.
Horace there by Homer stands,
Plato stands below,
And here is Tully's open page.
How many years ago
Were you and I unlettered lads
Mad as the mist and snow?
You ask what makes me sigh, old friend,
What makes me shudder so?
I shudder and I sigh to think
That even Cicero
And many-minded Homer were
Mad as the mist and snow.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101010 10111 101111111 01111 1101111 110101 1011101 10101 0111101 110101 010111 110101 11111111 111101 11001111 11010 01010100 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 479 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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