Analysis of The Lady's First Song
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I TURN round
Like a dumb beast in a show.
Neither know what I am
Nor where I go,
My language beaten
Into one name;
I am in love
And that is my shame.
What hurts the soul
My soul adores,
No better than a beast
Upon all fours.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1011001 101111 1111 11010 0111 1101 01111 1101 1101 110101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 221 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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