Analysis of The New Faces
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
IF you, that have grown old, were the first dead,
Neither catalpa tree nor scented lime
Should hear my living feet, nor would I tread
Where we wrought that shall break the teeth of Time.
Let the new faces play what tricks they will
In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,
Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,
The living seem more shadowy than they.
| Scheme | ABABCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
| Metre | 1111110011 10111101 1111011111 1111110111 1011011111 00111111 1011010101 0101110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 358 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 283 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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