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In Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan,”Yeats starts by telling the background information according to Greek mythology of Leda. The swan who rapes Leda in this poem, is not an ordinary swan but Zeus, the greek god. ... Through this poem Yeats uses many literary elements to describe this horrible crime Zeus committed. ... Yeats uses words like “still” and “bill”, and “thighs” and “lies”. Yeats only uses eye rime once in the poem, by using “push” and “rush. ... Yeats has four words that start with “h”, the speaker says, “He holds her helpless [ . ... Alliteration is also used by Yeats to emphasize the cruelness of Zeus of how he rapes a virgin but must hide himself as a coward would, the speaker says , “So mastered by the brute blood [ . ... The swan is referred to as a part of him instead of a whole.
Approximate Word count = 680
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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