This is an analysis of A Man Young And Old: Viii. Summer And Spring by William Butler Yeats.

We sat under an old thorn-tree
And talked away the night,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdcXadadeXe
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 11101111 110101 11110111 111101 11110101 111101 11010101 111101 110101001 1011111 11001101 101101 11010111 110100 11110101 1111001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16