Analysis of Mohini Chatterjee
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I ASKED if I should pray.
But the Brahmin said,
'pray for nothing, say
Every night in bed,
'I have been a king,
I have been a slave,
Nor is there anything.
Fool, rascal, knave,
That I have not been,
And yet upon my breast
A myriad heads have lain.'''
That he might Set at rest
A boy's turbulent days
Mohini Chatterjee
Spoke these, or words like these,
I add in commentary,
'Old lovers yet may have
All that time denied --
Grave is heaped on grave
That they be satisfied --
Over the blackened earth
The old troops parade,
Birth is heaped on Birth
That such cannonade
May thunder time away,
Birth-hour and death-hour meet,
Or, as great sages say,
Men dance on deathless feet.'
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFGFHIJIKLDLMNMBAOAO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 10101 11101 100101 11101 11101 11110 1101 11111 010111 0100111 111111 011001 1010 111111 110100 110111 11101 11111 11110 100101 01101 11111 111 110101 11001101 111101 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 514 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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