Analysis of A Man Young And Old: II. Human Dignity
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Like the moon her kindness is,
If kindness I may call
What has no comprehension in't,
But is the same for all
As though my sorrow were a scene
Upon a painted wall.
So like a bit of stone I lie
Under a broken tree.
I could recover if I shrieked
My heart's agony
To passing bird, but I am dumb
From human dignity.
| Scheme | XABAXA XBXBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 110111 11101001 110111 11110001 010101 11011111 100101 11010111 11100 11011111 110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 308 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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