Analysis of The Balloon Of The Mind
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
HANDS, do what you're bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.
| Scheme | ABBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 1001101 11001001 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 118 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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