The Tower
Yeats at sixty: "Sailing to Byzantium", "The Tower", "Leda and the Swan", "Among School Children", "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,303 lines, 93% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 92% to 93%). Alliteration runs at 1.12 times what shuffling the words would give (0.29 observed against 0.26 expected). 20% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Sailing to Byzantiumiambic pentameter · 32 linesPoem Iiambic pentameter · 17 linesPoem IIiambic pentameter · 104 linesPoem IIIiambic trimeter · 75 linesAncestral Housesiambic pentameter · 40 linesMy Houseiambic pentameter · 30 linesMy Tableiambic tetrameter · AABB · 32 linesMy Descendantsiambic pentameter · 24 linesThe Road at My Dooriambic tetrameter · 15 linesThe Stare’s Nest by My Windowiambic tetrameter · ABAAB · 20 linesPoem VIIiambic hexameter · 42 linesNineteen Hundred and Nineteeniambic pentameter · 130 linesThe Wheeliambic tetrameter · 8 linesYouth and Ageiambic pentameter · ABAB · 4 linesThe New Facesiambic pentameter · ABABCDCD · 8 linesA Prayer for My Soniambic tetrameter · 32 linesTwo Songs from a Play Iiambic tetrameter · 16 linesTwo Songs from a Play IIiambic tetrameter · AABB · 8 linesWisdomtrochaic tetrameter · 20 linesLeda and the Swaniambic pentameter · 15 linesOn a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmond Dulaciambic hexameter · 16 linesAmong School Childreniambic pentameter · 96 linesThe Girliambic pentameter · 12 linesThe Fool by the Roadsideiambic trimeter · 12 linesOwen Ahern and His Dancers Iiambic heptameter · 12 linesFirst Loveiambic tetrameter · 18 linesHuman Dignityiambic tetrameter · 12 linesThe Mermaidiambic trimeter · 6 linesThe Death of the Hareiambic tetrameter · 12 linesThe Empty Cupiambic tetrameter · 10 linesHis Memoriesiambic tetrameter · 18 linesThe Friends of His Youthiambic tetrameter · 20 linesSummer and Springiambic tetrameter · 16 linesThe Secrets of the Oldiambic trimeter · 18 linesHis Wildnessiambic trimeter · 12 linesThe Three Monumentsiambic tetrameter · 12 linesFrom ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ IIIiambic pentameter · AABB · 4 linesFrom ‘Oedipus at Colonus’ IViambic pentameter · AABB · 4 linesThe Gift of Harun Al-Rashidiambic pentameter · 202 linesAll Souls’ Nightiambic pentameter · 100 linesThe Dying Swaniambic pentameter · 15 linesStanza IIIiambic pentameter · 4 lines
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