Analysis of Wisdom
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
THE true faith discovered was
When painted panel, statuary.
Glass-mosaic, window-glass,
Amended what was told awry
By some peasant gospeller;
Swept the Sawdust from the floor
Of that working-carpenter.
Miracle had its playtime where
In damask clothed and on a seat
Chryselephantine, cedar-boarded,
His majestic Mother sat
Stitching at a purple hoarded
That He might be nobly breeched
In starry towers of Babylon
Noah's freshet never reached.
King Abundance got Him on
Innocence; and Wisdom He.
That cognomen sounded best
Considering what wild infancy
Drove horror from His Mother's breast.
Scheme | ABCDBEFGHIJKHLMLBNBN |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 0110101 11010100 1010101 01011101 11101 101101 1110100 1001111 01010101 11010 1010101 10101010 1111101 01010110 101101 1010111 1000101 11101 010011100 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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