Analysis of To be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I, THE poet William Yeats,
With old mill boards and sea-green slates,
And smithy work from the Gort forge,
Restored this tower for my wife George;
And may these characters remain
When all is ruin once again.
| Scheme | AABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 11110111 0111011 011101111 01110001 11110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 210 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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