This is an analysis of He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by William Butler Yeats.
WERE you but lying cold and dead,
And lights were paling out of the West,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcadcaedae
- Stanza lengths: 13,
- Metre: 01110111 110101001 111101111 111111111 11110101 010101101 111111001 111000011 11111111 01011111 11010111 10011001 11010111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 13
Repeated words/phrases
and, you
Anaphora
and
