Analysis of To A Young Beauty
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
DEAR fellow-artist, why so free
With every sort of company,
With every Jack and Jill?
Choose your companions from the best;
Who draws a bucket with the rest
Soon topples down the hill.
You may, that mirror for a school,
Be passionate, not bountiful
As common beauties may,
Who were not born to keep in trim
With old Ezekiel's cherubim
But those of Beauvarlet.
I know what wages beauty gives,
How hard a life her setvant lives,
Yet praise the winters gone:
There is not a fool can call me friend,
And I may dine at journey's end
With Landor and with Donne.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 110011100 1100101 11010101 11010101 110101 11110101 11001100 110101 10111101 1111 1111 11110101 1101011 110101 111011111 0111111 110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 546 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 435 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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