This is an analysis of A Last Confession by William Butler Yeats.

What lively lad most pleasured me
Of all that with me lay?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcXc debeXe XfXfgf gdcdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 110111001 011011 11011111 110100 11110001 111100 1000111 010101 11011101 011101 11010101 11111 11110101 111011 11010101 100101 10111101 11101 11011101 110011 11010100 11111 11010111 010101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

his, own, and

Anaphora

and