1 They fight, and fall, in strophes appropriate for recital in a warriors' banquet hall.

2 Song structure in which the same music is repeated with every stanza (strophe) of the poem.

3 The verse form of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" has five strophes, and each strophe is exactly the same in form.

4 And you can hear them together, Yeats moving from one to another with, oh, incredible speed and agility in that final strophe of the poem, on the next page.

5 Notice how very casual Yeats is in that second strophe, how self-consciously fantastic and speculative he is.