Analysis of Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites

William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)



COME gather round me, Parnellites,
And praise our chosen man;
Stand upright on your legs awhile,
Stand upright while you can,
For soon we lie where he is laid,
And he is underground;
Come fill up all those glasses
And pass the bottle round.

And here's a cogent reason,
And I have many more,
He fought the might of England
And saved the Irish poor,
Whatever good a farmer's got
He brought it all to pass;
And here's another reason,
That parnell loved a lass.

And here's a final reason,
He was of such a kind
Every man that sings a song
Keeps Parnell in his mind.
For Parnell was a proud man,
No prouder trod the ground,
And a proud man's a lovely man,
So pass the bottle round.

The Bishops and the party
That tragic story made,
A husband that had sold hiS wife
And after that betrayed;
But stories that live longest
Are sung above the glass,
And Parnell loved his countrey
And parnell loved his lass.


Scheme ABXBCDAD EFXXXAEA EGXGBDBD XCXCXAFA
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 0110101 10111101 101111 11111111 01110 1111110 010101 0101010 011101 1101110 010101 1010101 111111 0101010 110101 0101010 111101 10011101 110011 1101011 110101 00110101 110101 0100010 110101 01011111 010101 1101110 110101 010111 010111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 876
Words 172
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 2023

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William Butler Yeats

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