Analysis of Young Man's Song
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
'She will change,' I cried.
'Into a withered crone.'
The heart in my side,
That so still had lain,
In noble rage replied
And beat upon the bone:
'Uplift those eyes and throw
Those glances unafraid:
She would as bravely show
Did all the fabric fade;
No withered crone I saw
Before the world was made.'
Abashed by that report,
For the heart cannot lie,
I knelt in the dirt.
And all shall bend the knee
To my offended heart
Until it pardon me.
Scheme | ABAXAB CDCDXD XXXEXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 010101 01011 11111 010101 010101 101101 11001 111101 110101 110111 010111 011101 101101 11001 011101 110101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 431 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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