Analysis of The Fish
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
ALTHOUGH you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words.
| Scheme | ABABCDCE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11100101 101110111 010110111 010101111 011111111 10010101 011101001 011110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 298 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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