Analysis of Crazy Jane Reproved

William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)



I care not what the sailors say:
All those dreadful thunder-stones,
All that storm that blots the day
Can but show that Heaven yawns;
Great Europa played the fool
That changed a lover for a bull.
Fol de rol, fol de rol.

To round that shell's elaborate whorl,
Adorning every secret track
With the delicate mother-of-pearl,
Made the joints of Heaven crack:
So never hang your heart upon
A roaring, ranting journeyman.
Fol de rol, fol de rol.


Scheme axaxxxB cdcdxxB
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1010101 11010101 111111 11110101 010100101 101001011 1011101 11011101 0101010 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 434
Words 80
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 7
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 173
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 12, 2023

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William Butler Yeats

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