Analysis of A Deep-Sworn Vow
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
OTHERS because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.
| Scheme | ABCABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Italian Sestet |
| Metre | 10011111 111111111 111111001 111010111 111101011 1001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 224 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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