Analysis of A Man Young And Old: VIII. Summer And Spring
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
We sat under an old thorn-tree
And talked away the night,
Told all that had been said or done
Since first we saw the light,
And when we talked of growing up
Knew that we'd halved a soul
And fell the one in t'other's arms
That we might make it whole;
Then peter had a murdering look,
For it seemed that he and she
Had spoken of their childish days
Under that very tree.
O what a bursting out there was,
And what a blossoming,
When we had all the summer-time
And she had all the spring!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 010101 11111111 111101 01111101 111101 0101011 111111 110101001 1111101 11011101 101101 11010111 010100 11110101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 477 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 375 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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