Analysis of A Friend's Illness
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
SICKNESS brought me this
Thought, in that scale of his:
Why should I be dismayed
Though flame had burned the whole
World, as it were a coal,
Now I have seen it weighed
Against a soul?
| Scheme | ABCDDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 101111 111101 111101 111001 111111 0101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 185 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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