Analysis of Owen Aherne And His Dancers
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
A STRANGE thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.
| Scheme | AAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 0111011111111 0101010101101 11110101011111 111111001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 236 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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