Analysis of Death
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
NOR dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all;
Many times he died,
Many times rose again.
A great man in his pride
Confronting murderous men
Casts derision upon
Supersession of breath;
He knows death to the bone --
Man has created death.
| Scheme | ABACDEDEFGHG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 010100 010111 100101 10111 101101 011011 0101001 101001 111 111101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 275 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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