Analysis of Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
III
Slim adolescence that a nymph has stripped,
Peleus on Thetis stares.
Her limbs are delicate as an eyelid,
Love has blinded him with tears;
But Thetis' belly listens.
Down the mountain walls
From where pan's cavern is
Intolerable music falls.
Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear,
Belly, shoulder, bum,
Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs
Copulate in the foam.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 101010111 11101 011100111 1110111 1101010 10101 111101 01000101 11110101 10101 11101 10001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 354 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 285 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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