Analysis of The Attack on ‘The Playboy of the Western World,’ 1907
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
Once, when midnight smote the air,
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
From thoroughfare to thoroughfare,
While that great Juan galloped by;
And like these to rail and sweat
Staring upon his sinewy thigh.
| Scheme | ABACBC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 111101 110110 1111101 0111101 100111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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