CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” is written mostly in hexameter, with six stresses in each line, in a loosely iambic pattern. The last line of each four-line stanza shortens the line to tetrameter, with only four stresses: “And live alone in the bee-loud glade.” Each of the three stanzas has the same ABAB rhyme scheme.

Detailed explanation-2: -He emerges as a profound lover of natural beauty and tranquillity. His strong nostalgia for the beautiful sights and sounds on the Lake Isle and his desire to lead a simple life of unbroken solitude and peace on the island reveal the simplicity of his heart and mind.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is possible that Yeats cast himself as the speaker in this poem; considering that Innisfree is an actual place, on Lough Gill in County Sligo, Western Ireland and that when he was a boy Yeats’ family visited County Sligo.

Detailed explanation-4: -The rhythm pattern is generally iambic pentameter in the first three lines of each stanza and iambic tetrameter in the fourth.

Detailed explanation-5: -“Peace comes dropping slow / Dropping from the veils of the morning” (lines 5-6) in which the dropping of the mist in the sky is compared to the peace that overcomes the island. The entire poem could be an extended metaphor in which Innisfree represents an escape from reality.