Analysis of Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman

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



I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone,
For love is but a skein unwound
Between the dark and dawn.

A lonely ghost the ghost is
That to God shall come;
I - love's skein upon the ground,
My body in the tomb -
Shall leap into the light lost
In my mother's womb.

But were I left to lie alone
In an empty bed,
The skein so bound us ghost to ghost
When he turned his head
passing on the road that night,
Mine must walk when dead.


Scheme ABACDC XXDEXE BFXFXF
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 110101 0111011 010111 11110101 010101 0101011 11111 1110101 110001 1101011 01101 10111101 01101 01111111 11111 1010111 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 491
Words 106
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Butler Yeats

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