This is an analysis of Old Tom Again by William Butler Yeats.
Things out of perfection sail,
And all their swelling canvas wear,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacbc
- Stanza lengths: 6,
- Metre: 1100101 11110101 11010101 1010101 1011101 1011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 6
