Analysis of A Meditation In Time Of War
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
FOR one throb of the artery,
While on that old grey stone I Sat
Under the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate fantasy'.
| Scheme | ABACA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 11110100 11111111 10011101 11111100 110100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 155 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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