This is an analysis of In Tara's Halls by William Butler Yeats.

A MAN I praise that once in Tara's Hals
Said to the woman on his knees, 'Lie still.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabXbcXXddeXdXedece
  • Stanza lengths: 21,
  • Metre: 0111110101 1001010111 1101011111 11000101011 1001001101 0101011111 1101010101 010110101 1101111111 110110 0101 1001011101 01011101101 1101010100111 1111111101 01110010101 1101011111 10110011110 1101110101 1001010001 1001010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

that

Epiphora

think