Analysis of Statistics
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
'THOSE Platonists are a curse,' he said,
'God's fire upon the wane,
A diagram hung there instead,
More women born than men.'
| Scheme | ABAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110010111 1100101 0101101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 129 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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