Summary Of The Poem A Riddle Of Yeats

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Therefore, we can conclude that the poem is a riddle in which Yeats ends by asking a question, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Throughout the poem there are hints to the response to the riddle. Nonetheless, Yeats does not come out right and give the answer to the riddle. He leaves the reader to infer from the hints the answer to his riddle. The loss is a foreseen situation that has not yet occurred as it’s expressed by the last line that ends in question form.
4.1.2 The Structure and Form
The poems structure is written in blank verse, which means that has a consistent rhythm but no rhyme scheme. It has 22 lines divided into two stanzas. However, the second stanza has fourteen lines just like a sonnet. The Rhyme is roughly iambic but in some lines they do not express the iambs. The first line of the first stanza has the word turning stressed which is not the case with iambs. In some lines such as line thirteen, there are over ten syllables. Nonetheless, most of the lines in the poem have around ten syllables. These include the first three line of the first stanza.
The poem has variant feet many like the third foot in the first line which is an unstressed feet and which enhance and emphasize the stresses that follow them. In the first stanza the poet uses metaphors to assess the present state of the world, while the second he has a weird vision that is shadowed by darkness and a rhetorical question based on prophecy on the Second Coming.
4.1.3 The Styles
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