Analysis of The Spur
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
YOU think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song?
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111001101 1101001111 1011011111 1111111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 170 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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