The Blessed by William Butler Yeats: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Blessed that begins with:

CUMHAL called out, bending his head,
Till Dathi came and stood,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabccbXabXbXXaXaXaaXXaababaaacbXbXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111001 110111 0010011011 0101101 11011001 11110101 1101111 1111101001 1101001 110100111 001001001 110110101 110011 101101101 111010110 111110101 11111011 0100111001 0111010 1100100101 1111010 0011010100 1100101 11110101 10100111 11111011 11001001 110011011 11001111 1101001001 1110101 11001001101 1100111 1111001001 010001 110011111 10100010 1110111001 010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1403
  • Average number of words per stanza: 274
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, wind, goes are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The Blessed;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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