Analysis of Father And Child
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
She hears me strike the board and say
That she is under ban
Of all good men and women,
Being mentioned with a man
That has the worst of all bad names;
And thereupon replies
That his hair is beautiful,
Cold as the March wind his eyes.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 111101 1111010 1010101 11011111 00101 1111100 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 234 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 183 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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