Analysis of All Things Can Tempt Me
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
ALL things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman's face, or worse --
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed toil. When I was young,
I had not given a penny for a song
Did not the poet Sing it with such airs
That one believed he had a sword upstairs;
Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.
Scheme | AABBCDEEFF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111111111 1111010111 0101111101 11011100101 1101011111 11110010101 1101011111 1101110101 1111111111 1001001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 426 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 327 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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