This is an analysis of An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by William Butler Yeats.
I KNOW that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdaeaefgfg
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 11111111 11010101 11111111 11111111 11001001 11001001 11011101 110100101 11110111 11011101 01001001 10010001 11011101 00011101 01010001 01000101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
i, that, nor
Anaphora
those, my, nor
