William Butler Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan” is a sonnet, based on the Shakespearian rhyming scheme – iambic pentameter. The fourteen lines are schemed ABABCDCDEFGEFG. Yeats’ sonnet is mostly a well-constructed allusion to several events in Greek mythology, like Zeus’ coming to the Greek land, the attack of from the Trojan horse and death of Agamemnon during the destruction of the Trojan empire. Yeats’ tone is based on a mixture of different vivid words in order to describe the might of Gods and the weakness of humans. Yeats’ also draws on of images to allude upon the Trojan War. His clever use of differ
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