Analysis of Quarrel In Old Age
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
WHERE had her sweetness gone?
What fanatics invent
In this blind bitter town,
Fantasy or incident
Not worth thinking of,
put her in a rage.
I had forgiven enough
That had forgiven old age.
All lives that has lived;
So much is certain;
Old sages were not deceived:
Somewhere beyond the curtain
Of distorting days
Lives that lonely thing
That shone before these eyes
Targeted, trod like Spring.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 101001 011101 1001100 11101 10001 1101001 1101011 11111 11110 1100101 101010 10101 11101 110111 100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 385 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 315 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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