Which poet wrote The Wild Swans at Coole, in 1917?
The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) away? </poem> In his LP "Branduardi canta Yeats" (1986), Angelo Branduardi sings an Italian version of this poem. The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) "The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the "Little Review", and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections "The Wild Swans at Coole". It was written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park, and
The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) 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,