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 |
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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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