This is an analysis of A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness by William Butler Yeats.

O bid me mount and sail up there
Amid the cloudy wrack,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbcb acdXdX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 11111111 010101 11111101 111101 11011111 111111 01111101 110111 110100001 110100 101011101 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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