Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Yeats after the Rising and the war: "The Second Coming", "Easter, 1916", "A Prayer for My Daughter", "The Rose Tree".
Measured across the book
Across its 489 lines, 91% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 90% to 92%). Alliteration runs at 1.20 times what shuffling the words would give (0.25 observed against 0.21 expected). 20% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Solomon and the Witchiambic tetrameter · 97 linesSheiambic pentameter · 14 linesSheiambic pentameter · 14 linesSheiambic pentameter · 7 linesUnder Saturniambic hexameter · 17 linesEaster, 1916iambic tetrameter · 80 linesSixteen Dead Meniambic tetrameter · 18 linesThe Rose Treeiambic tetrameter · 18 linesOn a Political Prisoneriambic tetrameter · 24 linesThe Leaders of the Crowdiambic pentameter · 12 linesTowards Break of Dayiambic tetrameter · 25 linesDemon and Beastiambic tetrameter · AABB · 50 linesThe Second Comingiambic pentameter · 22 linesA Prayer for My Daughteriambic pentameter · 80 linesA Meditation in Time of Wariambic tetrameter · 5 linesTo Be Carved on a Stone at Ballyleeiambic tetrameter · AABB · 6 lines
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Public domain. Text from Michael Robartes and the dancer, Project Gutenberg ebook #72987. Free to read, print, copy and reuse.