Analysis of Tom At Cruachan
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
On Cruachan's plain slept he
That must sing in a rhyme
What most could shake his soul:
'The stallion Eternity
Mounted the mare of Time,
'Gat the foal of the world.'
| Scheme | ABCABD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 111001 111111 0100100 100111 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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