Analysis of A Dream Of Death
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I DREAMED that one had died in a strange place
Near no accustomed hand,
And they had nailed the boards above her face,
The peasants of that land,
Wondering to lay her in that solitude,
And raised above her mound
A cross they had made out of two bits of wood,
And planted cypress round;
And left her to the indifferent stars above
Until I carved these words:
i{She was more beautiful than thy first love,}
i{But now lies under boards.}
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110011 110101 0111010101 010111 1001100110 010101 01111111111 010101 01010010101 011111 11111001111 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 431 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 341 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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