Analysis of Politics
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
HOW can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics?
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms!
Scheme | ABCBDECFGHIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 10101 1101110 111010 11010111 11101 010010 11101 01011111 110101 11110101 010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 320 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 250 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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