This is an analysis of Old Memory by William Butler Yeats.
O THOUGHT, fly to her when the end of day
Awakens an old memory, and say,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXbb
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 1110010101 0101110011 11101101111 01110111001 0110010101 0111110001 10100111111 01111011101 1111110101 11111011111 1011010101 1101110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
and, be, that
