Analysis of The Scholars
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
BALD heads forgetful of their sins,
Old, learned, respectable bald heads
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That young men, tossing on their beds,
Rhymed out in love's despair
To flatter beauty's ignorant ear.
All shuffle there; all cough in ink;
All wear the carpet with their shoes;
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbour knows.
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?
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Metre | 11010111 11010011 1001001 11110111 110101 11011001 11011101 11010111 11110101 1101111 11111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 409 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 327 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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