Analysis of Where My Books go

William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)



All the words that I utter,
And all the words that I write,
Must spread out their wings untiring,
And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
Storm-darken’d or starry bright.


Scheme ABCBDBCB
Poetic Form
Metre 1011110 0101111 111111 0101011 111111111 0111001 011010110 111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 276
Words 53
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 212
Words per stanza (avg) 51
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 16, 2023

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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. more…

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