Analysis of Fragments
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I
LOCKE sank into a swoon;
The Garden died;
God took the spinning-jenny
Out of his side.
II
Where got I that truth?
Out of a medium's mouth.
Out of nothing it came,
Out of the forest loam,
Out of dark night where lay
The crowns of Nineveh.
| Scheme | AXBXB AXXXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 110101 0101 1101010 1111 1 11111 11011 111011 110101 111111 011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 236 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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