Analysis of On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literat
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Where, where but here have pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,
To shake their wicked sides at youth
Restraining reckless middle-age?
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111101 11110111 11110111 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 157 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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