Analysis of Maid Quiet
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
WHERE has Maid Quiet gone to,
Nodding her russet hood?
The winds that awakened the stars
Are blowing through my blood.
O how could I be so calm
When she rose up to depart?
Now words that called up the lightning
Are hurtling through my heart.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 100101 01101001 110111 1111111 1111101 11111010 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 242 |
Words | 48 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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