Analysis of The Mask
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
'PUT off that mask of burning gold
With emerald eyes.'
'O no, my dear, you make so bold
To find if hearts be wild and wise,
And yet not cold.'
'I would but find what's there to find,
Love or deceit.'
'It was the mask engaged your mind,
And after set your heart to beat,
Not what's behind.'
'But lest you are my enemy,
I must enquire.'
'O no, my dear, let all that be;
What matter, so there is but fire
In you, in me?'
Scheme | ABABACDCDCEFEFE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111101 1101 11111111 11111101 0111 11111111 1101 11010111 01011111 1101 11111100 11010 11111111 110111110 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 411 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 300 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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