This is an analysis of On A Picture Of A Black Centaur By Edmund Dulac by William Butler Yeats.

YOUR hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood,
Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeaeafgfg
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 111110110001 101100110111 111111000101 1111110101001 1101110010101 1101111010101 010111101101 001011110111 1101010011011 1111001100101 1101001011101 1101010011111 111111011001 1111101111111 110111010111 100101110011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

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