Analysis of The Realists
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?
| Scheme | ABACDBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 1111111 0010101 1010101 11011010 11010111 111 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 214 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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