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| by William Butler Yeats | |
| Written | 1917 |
| First published in | The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919) |
| Meter | iambic, in six-line stanzas of tetrameter (lines 1 and 3) , trimester (lines 2, 4, and 6), and pentameter (lines 5) |
| Rhyme scheme | ABCBDD |
| Publication date | 1917 |
| Lines | 30 |
"The Wild Swans at Coole" is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It was first published in the Little Review for June 1917. It is the title poem of Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections The Wild Swans at Coole. Written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park, the poem has a very regular stanza form: five six-line stanzas, each written in a roughly iambic meter, with the first and third lines in tetrameter, the second, fourth, and sixth lines in trimeter, and the fifth line in pentameter, so that the pattern of stressed syllables in each stanza is 434353. The rhyme scheme in each stanza is ABCBDD.
Poem
'The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine-and-fifty swans.
The nineteenth autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,
The first time on this shore,
The bell-beat of their wings above my head,
Trod with a lighter tread.
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old;
Passion or conquest, wander where they will,
Attend upon them still.
But now they drift on the still water,
Mysterious, beautiful;
Among what rushes will they build,
By what lake's edge or pool
Delight men's eyes when I awake some day
To find they have flown away?
External links
- "The Wild Swans at Coole" at the Poetry Foundation website
