Poems
Yeats's early collected volume: "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "When You Are Old", "The Song of Wandering Aengus", The Wanderings of Oisin.
Measured across the book
Across its 3,133 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 93% to 94%). Alliteration runs at 1.08 times what shuffling the words would give (0.35 observed against 0.32 expected). 18% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
To the Rose upon the Rood of Timeiambic pentameter · 57 linesThe Death of Cuchulainiambic pentameter · AABB · 94 linesThe Rose of the Worldiambic pentameter · ABBAB · 15 linesThe Rose of Peacecommon measure · ABAB · 16 linesThe Rose of Battleiambic pentameter · 36 linesA Faery Songiambic dimeter · 16 linesThe Lake Isle of Innisfreeiambic hexameter · ABAB · 12 linesA Cradle Songiambic trimeter · ABAB · 14 linesThe Pity of Loveiambic tetrameter · 8 linesThe Sorrow of Loveiambic pentameter · ABAB · 12 linesWhen You Are Oldiambic pentameter · ABBA · 12 linesThe White BirdsAABB · 15 linesA Dream of Deathiambic pentameter · 12 linesA Dream of a Blessed Spirittrochaic tetrameter · ABAB · 16 linesWho Goes with Fergus?iambic tetrameter · 12 linesThe Man Who Dreamed of Faerylandiambic pentameter · ABBACDDCEFFE · 48 linesThe Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelistsiambic pentameter · ABBA · 24 linesThe Lamentation of the Old Pensioneriambic trimeter · 12 linesThe Ballad of Father Gilligancommon measure · 48 linesThe Two Treesiambic tetrameter · 40 linesTo Ireland in the Coming Timesiambic tetrameter · AABB · 48 linesBridgetiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 8 linesMaurteen (To Father Hart)iambic pentameter · 7 linesMaurteen (To Shawn)iambic pentameter · 178 linesThe Voiceiambic pentameter · ABABCDCDEAEA · 12 linesMaurteen4 linesBridgetiambic pentameter · 6 linesThe Childiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 10 linesFather Harttrochaic pentameter · unrhymed · 6 linesMary (To Shawn)iambic pentameter · 4 linesThe Childiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 24 linesFather Hartiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 6 linesThe Childiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 9 linesFather Hartiambic pentameter · 4 linesThe Childiambic pentameter · 38 linesThe Song of the Happy Shepherdiambic tetrameter · 57 linesThe Sad Shepherdiambic pentameter · AABB · 28 linesThe Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoesiambic pentameter · 92 linesThe Indian upon Godiambic heptameter · AABB · 20 linesThe Indian to His Loveiambic tetrameter · ABABB · 20 linesThe Falling of the Leavesdactylic tetrameter · ABAB · 8 linesEphemeraiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 26 linesThe Madness of King Golliambic tetrameter · 78 linesThe Stolen Childiambic tetrameter · 53 linesTo an Isle in the Wateriambic trimeter · 16 linesDown by the Salley Gardensiambic hexameter · AABB · 8 linesThe Meditation of the Old FishermanABAB · 12 linesThe Ballad of Father O'Hartcommon measure · 40 linesThe Ballad of Moll Mageecommon measure · 56 linesThe Ballad of the Foxhuntercommon measure · ABAB · 48 linesBook I: S. Patriciambic pentameter · AABB · 4 linesUsheeniambic tetrameter · 420 linesBook IIiambic pentameter · AABB · 209 linesS. Patriciambic pentameter · AABB · 5 linesUsheeniambic pentameter · AABB · 46 linesBook III245 linesS. Patric5 linesUsheen15 linesS. Patric5 linesUsheenABAB · 8 linesAleeliambic pentameter · 5 linesOonaiambic pentameter · 4 linesAleel5 linesHush!iambic pentameter · 4 linesCathleeniambic pentameter · 14 linesAleeliambic pentameter · unrhymed · 19 linesThe Angeliambic pentameter · unrhymed · 7 linesOonaiambic pentameter · 5 linesUnwin Brothers, Limited Woking and London7 lines
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