Analysis of The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
PALE brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end:
She looked in my heart one day
And saw your image was there;
She has gone weeping away.
| Scheme | ABABCAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 1101001 0110101 1101001 1101111 0111011 1111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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