Analysis of Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
WHAT they undertook to do
They brought to pass;
All things hang like a drop of dew
Upon a blade of grass.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 110111 1111 11110111 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 110 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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