Analysis of A Stick Of Incense
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Whence did all that fury come?
From empty tomb or Virgin womb?
Saint Joseph thought the world would melt
But liked the way his finger smelt.
| Scheme | ABCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 11011101 11010111 11011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 145 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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