Analysis of What Was Lost
William Butler Yeats 1865 (Sandymount) – 1939 (Menton)
I SING what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again,
My king a lost king, and lost soldiers my men;
Feet to the Rising and Setting may run,
They always beat on the same small stone.
| Scheme | ABBAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1111101111 11001011001 11011011011 1101001011 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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