Analysis of The Rose in the Deeps of his Heart
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
All things uncomely and broken,
All things worn-out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway,
The creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman,
splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms
A rose in the deeps of my heart.
The wrong of unshapely things
Is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew
And sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water,
Remade, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms
A rose in the deeps of my heart.
| Scheme | abcdabeDfbgdhbeD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010 111101 01101101 01101001 0101101 100101 11110110 01001111 01111 10111111 11011101 01101101 1010010010 01101011 1111110110 01001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 522 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 412 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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