Analysis of A Coat
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I MADE my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.
| Scheme | ABBACDCCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 111101 1010100 1111 1111 10111 110011 11111 11111 11110 01010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 242 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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