Analysis of Another Song Of A Fool
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
Once he lived a schoolmaster
With a stark, denying look;
A string of scholars went in fear
Of his great birch and his great book.
Like the clangour of a bell,
Sweet and harsh, harsh and sweet.
That is how he learnt so well
To take the roses for his meat.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111010 0010111 1010011 101101 111010 1010101 01110101 11110111 101101 101101 1111111 11010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 362 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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