Analysis of A Man Young And Old: VI. His Memories
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
We should be hidden from their eyes,
Being but holy shows
And bodies broken like a thorn
Whereon the bleak north blows,
To think of buried Hector
And that none living knows.
The women take so little stock
In what I do or say
They'd sooner leave their cosseting
To hear a jackass bray;
My arms are like the twisted thorn
And yet there beauty lay;
The first of all the tribe lay there
And did such pleasure take -
She who had brought great Hector down
And put all Troy to wreck -
That she cried into this ear,
'Strike me if I shriek.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111 101101 01010101 10111 1111010 011101 01011101 011111 110111 11011 11110101 011101 01110111 011101 11111101 011111 1110111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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