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
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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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. more…

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