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.


Scheme ABCDEFGFHIJIKLML
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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William Butler Yeats

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