Analysis of Crazy Jane Reproved
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I care not what the sailors say:
All those dreadful thunder-stones,
All that storm that blots the day
Can but show that Heaven yawns;
Great Europa played the fool
That changed a lover for a bull.
Fol de rol, fol de rol.
To round that shell's elaborate whorl,
Adorning every secret track
With the delicate mother-of-pearl,
Made the joints of Heaven crack:
So never hang your heart upon
A roaring, ranting journeyman.
Fol de rol, fol de rol.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 1110101 1111101 1111101 1010101 11010101 111111 11110101 010100101 101001011 1011101 11011101 0101010 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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