Analysis of Imitated From The Japanese
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
A MOST astonishing thing --
Seventy years have I lived;
(Hurrah for the flowers of Spring,
For Spring is here again.)
Seventy years have I lived
No ragged beggar-man,
Seventy years have I lived,
Seventy years man and boy,
And never have I danced for joy.
| Scheme | aB ax BxBcc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101001 1001111 01101011 111101 1001111 110101 1001111 1001101 01011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 254 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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