Analysis of The Arrow
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I THOUGHT of your beauty, and this arrow,
Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow.
There's no man may look upon her, no man,
As when newly grown to be a woman,
Tall and noble but with face and bosom
Delicate in colour as apple blossom.
This beauty's kinder, yet for a reason
I could weep that the old is out of season.
| Scheme | AABCDDCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111100110 11101110110 1111101011 1110111010 1010111010 1000111010 111011010 11110111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 323 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 245 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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