Analysis of To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
BE you still, be you still, trembling heart;
Remember the wisdom out of the old days:
Him who trembles before the flame and the flood,
And the winds that blow through the starry ways,
Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood
Cover over and hide, for he has no part
With the lonely, majestical multitude.
| Scheme | ABCBCAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111001 01001011011 1110101001 0011110101 10101001001 10100111111 1010110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 313 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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