Analysis of The Heart Of The Woman
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
O WHAT to me the little room
That was brimmed up with prayer and rest;
He bade me out into the gloom,
And my breast lies upon his breast.
O what to me my mother's care,
The house where I was safe and warm;
The shadowy blossom of my hair
Will hide us from the bitter storm.
O hiding hair and dewy eyes,
I am no more with life and death,
My heart upon his warm heart lies,
My breath is mixed into his breath.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 11110101 11111101 11110101 01110111 11111101 01111101 010010111 11110101 11010101 11111101 11011111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 403 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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