Analysis of He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I DREAMED that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes:
I cried in my dream, O women, bid the young men lay
Their heads on your knees, and drown their eyes with your fair,
Or remembering hers they will find no other face fair
Till all the valleys of the world have been withered away.
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| Metre | 1111100100011 110101111111 011111111101 10111101111 1101111010111 111110111111 10100011111011 11010101111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 448 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 351 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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