His poems, 'Wild Swans at Coole' explores the conflicting tension of perpetual youth and our inevitable mortality while his great philosophical poem 'Among School Children' takes this dichotomy further in an often despairing quest for meaning in the face of 'sixty winters' of pain. ... The poem is structured in 5 stanzas, each consisting 6 lines, along with a rough iambic meter. ... The nature and persona's recognition of mortality brings the poem to a sombre conclusion as the physical distance between the poet and swans represents the vast metaphysical ga...

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