Analysis of To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators Of His And Mine
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
YOU say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another's said or sung,
'Twere politic to do the like by these;
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111110101 0111010111 110110111 1111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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