Analysis of His Confidence
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Undying love to buy
I wrote upon
The corners of this eye
All wrongs done.
What payment were enough
For undying love?
I broke my heart in two
So hard I struck.
What matter? for I know
That out of rock,
Out of a desolate source,
Love leaps upon its course.
| Scheme | AXAXXX XXXXBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010111 1101 010111 111 110001 10101 111101 1111 110111 1111 1101001 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 251 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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