This is an analysis of Drinking Song by William Butler Yeats.

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababab
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 110101 1110101 1111111 0111111 1101011 1111111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6

Anaphora

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