The Wild Swans at Coole

The Wild Swans at Coole

The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of poems by William Yeats, first published in 1917. It is also the name of a poem in that collection. The "Wild Swans at Coole" is in the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned with, amongst other themes, Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic.

The poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" is written in 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.


Poems in "The Wild Swans at Coole"

The Wild Swans at Coole
Ego Dominus Tuus
The Scholars
On being asked for a War Poem

External links

* [http://www.nli.ie/yeats/ Original 'The Wild Swans at Coole' MS on display at National Library of Ireland]


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