A New Dance Turn: “The Cat and the Moon”

I have decided to reissue my paper, A New Dance Turn: “The Cat and the Moon” All up in One Another, so that I can give it a new title page, one with the following mandala on it:

The paper itself is unchanged. Here's the abstract:

Abstract: The semantic structure of Yeats' "The Cat and the Moon" is embodied through a syntactic and sound structure which also goes through phases, phases which complement that semantic structure. The first phase consists of two four-line sentences, each weakly rhymed ABCB. The second phase continues with four-line rhyme groups, but the rhymes are strong. Syntactically, there is a strong alignment between rhyme groups and syntactic grouping in the first phase while there is no obvious alignment between sound and syntax in the second phase of the poem, which also contains two rhetorical questions. The poem's third phase synthesizes the stylistic features of the first two phases. It has the synchrony of rhyme and syntax that characterizes the first phase; but the rhymes are strong and the penultimate sentence of the poem is a rhetorical question—features of the second phase. The poem thus embodies, in both sound and sense, the cyclic interpenetration of opposites which is its meaning.

You may also download it at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2481876
And at ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324667583_A_New_Dance_Turn_'The_Cat_and_the_Moon'_All_Up_in_One_Another#fullTextFileContent

Here's the full text: 

Yeats published the poem as a single long stanza. I’ve added empty lines to highlight the major structural divisions within the poem.

The Cat and The Moon

W. B. Yeats

1)   The cat went here and there 
2)   And the moon spun round like a top,
3)   And the nearest kin of the moon,
4)   The creeping cat, looked up.
5)   Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
6)   For, wander and wail as he would,
7)   The pure cold light in the sky
8)   Troubled his animal blood.

9)   Minnaloushe runs in the grass
10)  Lifting his delicate feet.
11)  Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
12)  When two close kindred meet,
13)  What better than call a dance?
14)  Maybe the moon may learn,
15)  Tired of that courtly fashion,
16)  A new dance turn.

17)  Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
18)  From moonlit place to place,
19)  The sacred moon overhead
20)  Has taken a new phase.
21)  Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
22)  Will pass from change to change,
23)  And that from round to crescent,
24)  From crescent to round they range?
25)  Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
26)  Alone, important and wise,
27)  And lifts to the changing moon
28)  His changing eyes.