Analysis of The Falling Of The Leaves
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
AUTUMN is over the long leaves that love us,
And over the mice in the barley sheaves;
Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us,
And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.
The hour of the waning of love has beset us,
And weary and worn are our sad souls now;
Let us patt, ere the season of passion forget us,
With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.
| Scheme | ABABACAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110011111 0100100101 10011010011 010011101 0101010111011 01001110111 1111010110011 10100111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 352 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 272 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 70 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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