Analysis of These Are The Clouds
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THESE are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye:
The weak lay hand on what the strong has done,
Till that be tumbled that was lifted high
And discord follow upon unison,
And all things at one common level lie.
And therefore, friend, if your great race were run
And these things came, So much the more thereby
Have you made greatness your companion,
Although it be for children that you sigh:
These are the clouds about the fallen sun,
The majesty that shuts his burning eye.
| Scheme | ABababababAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010101 0100111101 0111110111 1111011101 0101001100 0111110101 011111101 0111110111 111101010 111110111 1101010101 0100111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 505 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 404 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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