Analysis of The Results Of Thought
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
ACQUAINTANCE; companion;
One dear brilliant woman;
The best-endowed, the elect,
All by their youth undone,
All, all, by that inhuman
Bitter glory wrecked.
But I have straightened out
Ruin, wreck and wrack;
I toiled long years and at length
Came to so deep a thought
I can summon back
All their wholesome strength.
What images are these
That turn dull-eyed away,
Or Shift Time's filthy load,
Straighten aged knees,
Hesitate or stay?
What heads shake or nod?
| Scheme | AABAABCDEFDEGHIGHJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010 111010 0101001 111101 1111010 10101 111101 10101 1111011 111101 11101 11101 110011 111101 111101 1011 1011 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 447 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 360 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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