hello hello will you go "the lake isle of innisfree" by william butler yeats? there is a choral arrangement of it that is one of my favorite songs at the moment
Scansion:
β β‘ / β‘ β / β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β I will arise and go now, || and go to Innisfree, β β‘ / β‘ β / β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β And a small cabin build there, || of clay and wattles made; β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β‘ β / β‘ β Nine bean-rows will I have there, || a hive for the honey-bee, β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β‘ β / β‘ β And live / alone / in the bee/-loud glade. β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β And I shall have some peace there, || for peace comes dropping slow, β β‘ / β‘ β‘ β / β‘ β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β Dropping from the veils of the morning || to where the cricket sings; β‘ β / β‘ β/ β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β There midnightβs all a glimmer, || and noon a purple glow, β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β‘ β / β‘ β And evening full of the linnetβs wings. β β‘ / β‘ β / β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β I will arise and go now, || for always night and day β‘ β / β β‘ / β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β I hear lake water lapping || with low sounds by the shore; β‘ β / β β‘ / β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β While I stand on the roadway, || or on the pavements grey, β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β I hear it in the deep heartβs core.
ABAB stanzas. The fourth line of each stanza is mostly-iambic tetrameter:
β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β
The other lines are hexameters, also mostly-iambic, with a caesura in the middle of the line and an additional short syllable/feminine ending right before the caesura:
β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β β‘ || β‘ β / β‘ β / β‘ β
Some feet are anapests or trochees instead of iambs, and the exact stresses in some of the lines are debatable, but this is the basic pattern.

















