Analysis of Down By The Salley Gardens
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
DOWN by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
In a field by the river my love and I did stand,
And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
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Metre | 1101010110111 1101010110111 11111101011101 11101010101101 0011010110111 0111010110111 11111101011101 1111010011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 448 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 342 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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