Analysis of A Man Young And Old: I. First Love
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Though nurtured like the sailing moon
In beauty's murderous brood,
She walked awhile and blushed awhile
And on my pathway stood
Until I thought her body bore
A heart of flesh and blood.
But since I laid a hand thereon
And found a heart of stone
I have attempted many things
And not a thing is done,
For every hand is lunatic
That travels on the moon.
She smiled and that transfigured me
And left me but a lout,
Maundering here, and maundering there,
Emptier of thought
Than the heavenly circuit of its stars
When the moon sails out.
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Metre | 11010101 011001 11010101 01111 01110101 011101 11110101 010111 11010101 010111 11001110 110101 110111 011101 100101001 10011 1010010111 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 523 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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