William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) was an Irish poet known as a representative figure of the Irish Literary Renaissance as well as one of the most important authors of the 20th century. Although he wrote several works for the theater, he is mainly distinguished by his work in poetry. Yeats succeeded in freeing Irish poetry from the patterns established by British poetry, thereby breaking the tradition of Victorian poetry. This work will focus on his best-known poem, Easter 1916, which reflects the events of Easter Rising, the battle in which the Irish people attempted to gain independence from England. Easter 1916 involves symbolism in its numerical structure. First of all, the second and fourth stanzas contain 24 verses that refer to the day the rebellion began. Additionally, the poem has four stanzas, alluding to the fourth month of the year, April, when the uprising took place. Finally, the first and third stanzas are composed of 16 lines, indicating the year of the battle, 1916. The first stanza serves as an introduction to the poem. Here, Yeats speaks in the first person about the daily life of the city, as if nothing had happened. However, this routine, calm tone changes dramatically in the final verse “A terrible beauty is born” (16), which is repeated at the end of the second and fourth stanzas. Furthermore, with this “terrible beauty”, the author wants to express the duality of the rebellion: on the one hand, the terrible number of deaths it caused; and on the other hand, the beauty of allowing the creation of a free Ireland. The second stanza of the poem is a tribute to the participants of the revolution who died during the Easter Rising. Indeed, Yeats names several...... middle of paper ......would have spoken of the stanzas independently as this would have aided in a better understanding of the poem, since each conveys important things. Finally, regarding the above, Dyson does not analyze the structure of the poem, moreover, even when talking about the rhyme, he does not even say if it is assonant or consonant, but he focuses on the meaning that It reads: "There is a simple but insistent rhyme scheme (a/b/a/b) which supports our perception of the poem as an artifact [...] This has much to do with Yeats's approach of the war" (p. 30). In conclusion, after all the questions discussed, I can say that Easter 1916 is a poem that pays tribute to the people who fought in the "Easter Rising", as well as to their ideals which , as Yeats repeats at the end of the stanza, were the beginning of the "Terrible Beauty" (16, 40, 80): The independence of Ireland.