A Song
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I THOUGHT no more was needed
Youth to polong
Than dumb-bell and foil
To keep the body young.
O who could have foretold
That thc heart grows old?
Though I have many words,
What woman's satisfied,
I am no longer faint
Because at her side?
O who could have foretold
That the heart grows old?
I have not lost desire
But the heart that I had;
I thOught 'twould burn my body
Laid on the death-bed,
For who could have foretold
That the heart grows old?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xaxa Bb xcxc BB xxxx bB |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 88 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2 |
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