Analysis of Girl's Song

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



I went out alone
To sing a song or two,
My fancy on a man,
And you know who.

Another came in sight
That on a stick relied
To hold himself upright;
I sat and cried.

And that was all my song -
When everything is told,
Saw I an old man young
Or young man old?


Scheme XAXA BCBC XDXD
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11101 110111 110101 0111 010101 110101 110101 1101 011111 11011 111111 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 253
Words 59
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. more…

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