Analysis of O Do Not Love Too Long
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
SWEETHEART, do not love too long:
I loved long and long,
And grew to be out of fashion
Like an old song.
All through the years of our youth
Neither could have known
Their own thought from the other's,
We were so much at one.
But O, in a minute she changed --
O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 11101 01111110 1111 11011101 10111 1111010 101111 11001011 111111 11111110 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 329 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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