Analysis of Brown Penny
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,'
And then, 'I am old enough';
Wherefore I threw a penny
To find out if I might love.
'Go and love, go and love, young man,
If the lady be young and fair.'
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
I am looped in the loops of her hair.
O love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.
Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny,
One cannot begin it too soon.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 0111101 111010 1111111 10110111 10101101 110110110 111001101 1110101 111101 11111101 11111011 1011101 0011001 110110110 11001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 500 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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