Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Structure & Form of Yeats' Poetry
- The Stolen Child
- ABAB AABB rhyme scheme
- ABAB creates soft, lyrical, lilting tone but AABB
shows form of a Clerihew - rhymes often forced
- Folkloric monologue by Faery to Human
Child to persuade him to go with the Faery
- September 1913
- Ballad with clear chorus -
mockery, sarcastic
- Simple ABAB to put out strong political message
- Popular form in Irish Culture
- The Cold Heaven
- Quatrains to symbolise regularity and tedium
of age
- Half rhyming ABAB rhyme
scheme shows confusion of
Yeats
- The Wild Swans At
Coole
- ABCBDD rhyme structure is rhythmically disturbed
flow - Yeats is pleased with nature but displeased with
his own life
- Rhyming couplets in every stanza represent Swans
and partners, accentuate Yeats' lonliness
- It's almost a Sestina but has 5 stanzas
instead of 6, showing loneliness
- An Irish Airman Forsees
His Death
- ABAB Quatrains shows regularity, dull life and inevitability of
death
- Elegiac
- The Fisherman
- ABABCDCD is Shakespearean Sonnet,
emphasising love for the Fisherman
- 6-7 syllables per line - Fisherman's
small emphasis to society
- Broken Dreams
- Prosaic
- Stream of Consciousness
represents raw emotion
- The Cat and
the Moon
- 28 lines represents 28 phases of the Moon
- Rhythmically structured to symbolise Waltz dance
- Ballad - highly emotive
- The Second
Coming
- Free Verse - chaotic, lack of control
- Prosaic - rushing thoughts
- Sailing to
Byzantium
- Lyric poem - expresses
Yeats' strong emotion
- Corruputed Ottava
Rima - an epic, but
with twisted
half-rhyme so
characteristics of it
reinforces content
- Among School Children
- Ottava Rima
represents regularity
of school routine
- Continually changes in rhyme
scheme, Yeats questioning
philosophy of life
- In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth
and Con Markiewicz
- ABAB connotes Mantra in last stanza
- No particular rhyme scheme or structure represents
the familiarity with the sisters and informality of
friendship
- Leda and the
Swan
- Petrarchan Sonnet
- Octave introduces problem but against tradition Sestet doesn't
solve it, signifying the problem hasn't been solved, it's
permanently broken, leaving audience still wondering
- Written in traditional rhyme scheme but
events are a stark contrast against the
usual topics of sonnets
- Quatrains until Sestet where structure
is broken, signifies destruction
- The Man and the Echo
- Simplistic rhyming couplets -
simplicity, regularity of death
- Dialogue between Yeats and his haunting past, a
shadow
- AABB shows form of Clerihew, rhymes are often
forced, Yeats is being forced to reflect in order to
understand afterlife
- Easter 1916
- 2nd and 4th stanza
are 24 lines long to
represent 24th April
- ABAB structure - Yeats varies rhyme
to emphasise certain parts of the
poem's content and significance
- Maintains a consistency in form, showing unity
- 1st and 3rd stanza are 16
lines long to represent 1916
- 4 stanzas to show the four months of
April