Analysis of For Anne Gregory
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
'NEVER shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great honey-coloured
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.'
'But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.'
'I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011 10101 1111010 1111 1110101 011101 1111011 01111 111110 111001 1111101 011101 11110101 1101 11110111 110111 11110101 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 477 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 377 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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