Analysis of The Lover Speaks To The Hearers Of His Songs In Coming Days
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
O WOMEN, kneeling by your altar-rails long hence,
When songs I wove for my beloved hide the prayer,
And smoke from this dead heart drifts through the violet air
And covers away the smoke of myrrh and frankincense;
Bend down and pray for all that sin I wove in song,
Till the Attorney for Lost Souls cry her sweet cry,
And.call to my beloved and me: 'No longer fly
Amid the hovering, piteouS, penitential throng.'
| Scheme | ABBACDDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101110111 11111101101 0111111101001 010010111010 110111111101 100101111011 11101011101 010100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 414 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 324 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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