Analysis of Never Give All The Heart
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
NEVER give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy. Kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.
Scheme | AABBCDEEFFGAHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 11011101 110010111 1001101 11111111 1101101 10110101 11010111 11111111 110111101 01111101 11010111 11111101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 488 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 383 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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