Analysis of A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
O bid me mount and sail up there
Amid the cloudy wrack,
For peg and Meg and Paris' love
That had so straight a back,
Are gone away, and some that stay
Have changed their silk for sack.
Were I but there and none to hear
I'd have a peacock cry,
For that is natural to a man
That lives in memory,
Being all alone I'd nurse a stone
And sing it lullaby.
| Scheme | XAXAXA XBXXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110111 010101 11010101 111101 11010111 111111 01110111 11011 111100101 110100 101011101 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 345 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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